Re: Debian 2.1 disappointment
On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 05:32:17PM -0400, Scott McMillan wrote:
[snip!]
> know which CD to start with). Each time during the Install step
> it would say 'Skipping deselected package: *' hundreds of times and
> nothing seemed to get installed. It was as if the whole Profile step
> was totally ignored.
>
> I have the following questions:
>
> - Has anyone been successful with the LinuxMall CD's? If so, how
> did you get it to work.
If you select the multi-cd option, you need to start with CD 2 (I've
heard).
> - Has anyone ever been able to get back to the Menu that asks you
> about an initial profile without having to restart the entire
> installation process over?
No one ever has. These profiles exist only fleetingly. :-(
My advice? Use the apt method with CD 1 and an /etc/apt/sources.list
file that looks like this:
deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
Your net connection has to be up if the last two lines are active (the
base system is sufficient to get ppp running).
Luck,
Pann
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