Re: problems installing Slink from apt
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Pollywog wrote:
> I copied some new images to a set of floppies and installed the base system
> to my ThinkPad (seven floppies) and all goes well until I have to choose
> how to install the rest of the system. The FTP option is gone, and I can
> only use it with APT and this is not good, because I cannot get to my CDROM
> that way. The CD is on another machine and is mounted to my home
> directory, mount point /home/pollywog/debian
You can either get a newer APT and use the CDROM method, or just use a
file uri to your mount pint.
> I am not set up for anonymous FTP, so is there a way to get APT to log in
> with a password?
Standard uri notation,
ftp://user:pass@site:80/
Jason
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