I'm trying to use dselect to no avail. First I tried to tell dselect to read the cdrom.
chose option a, saw the following << If you make a mistake use the interrupt key ( ^C ) to abort. I see that /dec/cdrom exists and is a block device Inser the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dec/cdrom] >> So I inserted my handy dandy debian 1.3.1 binary cd, and hit return and got this. << mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device ( maybe 'insmod driver'?) Unable to mount /dev/cdrom on /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt, type iso9660. Insert the CD-ROM blah blah blah >> I figure OK, the machine does not like my cdrom drive. Why not try the insmod driver thing. So I type "insmod /dev/cdrom" and get << /dev/cdrom: /dev/cdrom: No such device >> So I figure that I should try the FTP method instead. Picked that, chose all the defaults and then got << Net::FTP: Bad hostname 'ftp.debian.org' at /usr/lib/perl5/Net/FTP.pm line 405 FTP ERROR query/setup script returned error exit status 1. >> OK, I obviously don't have a nameserver so I did a nslookup on ftp.debian.org and tried again with 130.207.7.21 ( which is aliased to santanni.cc.gatech.edu ). Default answer for everything else. << Connecting to 130.207.7.21... FTP ERROR query/setup script returned errror exit status 1. >> What should I try now ? Alfonso ( aka confused ) -- Alfonso E. Urdaneta VOX: 407.729.3840 Harris Corp/Transcomm Division FAX: 407.729.1962 PO Box 5100, MS 6B.3827 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Melbourne, FL 32902.5100 http://www.transcomm.ess.harris.com The Harris Corporation agrees with everything I say. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
