Re: First Install
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:41:27PM -0700, ian mckerrow wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm a newbie who's constantly getting tripped up by MS
> baggage. I recently installed slink from CD onto a
> amarda 4160T laptop as a trial and it all worked (up
> to a point). I read docs which indicated the pcmcia
> works better under potato so with false confidence I
> decided to install it from the web. I downloaded the
> files from debian.org to a dos partition. I have also
> dowloaded selected packages, keeping the file
> structure, also to the dos partition. When I boot to
> Linux I'm fine until 'Apt Configuration'. I have 5
> choices, CD (not auto detected), filesystem, http, ftp
> & edit sources by hand. It asks me to enter the
> mirror directory. Slink had an auto detect which
> worked but I can't figure out the the keystrokes for
> the dos partition.
Mount your dos-partition (man mount).
Then use "filesystem". HTH
BTW, if you are doing a new installation, I would
use potato. It is stable since some weeks.
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Thomas Guettler
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