Unable to install from Debian 3.0 CDs
I just got Debian 3.0 CDs from Cheapbytes. When I went to install, I
went through dselect and picked all the packages I wanted. Then, when
dselect went to install them, it had trouble. At this point, I have a
minimal system installed. Here's the problem:
dselect accepted my selections for packages. When I go into dselect and
tell it (under Access) to look to the CDs for package info, it asks me
to put in the first CD, which I do. Then it tells me it wants to know
where the base directory for the distro is.
/dists/woody/main/binary-i386 contains the Packages.gz file.
The root of the CDROM drive contains a pool directory, with alphabetic
subdirs, which in turn contain *.deb files.
/dists/woody/main/binary-i386 also contains directories for the various
sections of the install (like base, comm, editors, etc.), but these
directories are empty.
When I give dselect any directories on the CDROM (as in any of the
above), it says that there are no *.deb files in that directory. If I
try to give it the pool subdir, it tries to add on main/binary-i386 to
the path, and that directory's not structured that way.
I must be missing something. Can anyone provide a clue?
Paul
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