Re: Woody Installation Problem
I don't think this exchange made it to debian-user because there were 2
addresses in the To: header, so I'll resend the whole exchange to the list
for the archives.
On October 31, 2002 07:39 pm, Levi Waldron wrote:
> On October 31, 2002 02:13 pm, Joe Riel wrote:
> > I had tried that, but there was, alas, no option for multi-CD.
> > I have no idea how many packages might be broken.
>
> apt-get install dpkg-multicd
>
> (I think this should be in the dselect tutorial section of the debian
> install manual but it isn't - I'll submit a bug report to install-doc
> unless someone knows why I shouldn't)
>
> Then you will have access to the multicd method in dselect. There are
> instructions for using it in the debian installation manual -> Advanced
> Package Selection with dselect -> dselect tutorial:
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/dselect-beginner
>
> You can also add multiple cd's to your sources with apt-cdrom.
> Just put a cd in and type "apt-cdrom add", or "apt-cdrom -cdrom /mountpoint
> add" if it can't find your cd. "man apt-cdrom" for more info. Then you
> could use
> apt-get remove packagename and
> apt-get install packagename
> to re-install packages.
>
> > Is there a way to restart tasksel so that it will prompt for all the
> > tasks again [not just the ones that weren't selected the previous time]?
>
> I don't know about this, but it looks like tasksel only installs packages
> that aren't installed yet. You might have to remove them with another
> package like apt-get, aptitude, or dselect before installing them again.
On November 1 2002, Joe Riel wrote:
I tried the first approach, running dselect and chosing multicd, after
first installing dpkg-multicd. It was not at all clear what to do after that.
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/dselect-beginner
implies that using multicd access is a bit tricky; that is correct.
I never got it to work. So I changed the access method to apt---
previously I had assumed that that was only for downloads from
a web site---and things proceeded much smoother. dselect would now
query for the proper CD when it needed to install a selected package.
Thanks,
Joe Riel
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