Hi folks here's what I want to do: I have a dos partition that I made of about 20megs that I put DOS/WINDOWS install programs on. so now I have 4 partitions one for WIN95, Linux, Linux-swap,and a Dos partition.
I have read the help and information docs on dselect but could not find or understand what I should do to make this work. I set LILO so I can boot into Linux then get into as root. I mount hda3 to /mnt and fd0 to /floppy. I want to add gcc and some info packages to my Linux system. I believe you have to have packages.gz in the same directory as your *.deb stuff so I did that. Now I run dselect and I pick that I have a mounted hardrive I want to work from. After this point I get lost. I get a bunch of queation asking where package.gz is and some other stuff I type in /mnt/linux for all of them because thats where all *.deb and packages.gz are. It then ask me to configure the packages. Is there auto config where I sit back and let it install everything it can find. and what does the dpkg program do? Is it a manual way of installing *.deb's. Help?
