On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Oscar Alvarez Paredes wrote: > I bought this 2CD Debian Distributuion but i haven't already been able > to instal it. > > I tryied to boot it from the CD but after displaying the first line it > hangs. > I made the seven instalation disks and i installed the base system but i > couldn't configure my CR-ROM, so i copied the whole CD in my hard disk > and i executed dselect but it couldn't find the /stable/binary-i386 > directory. I have selected /bo/binary-i as this directory an it lets me > choose the packages to install but when proceeding with installation it > aborts because of many erros.
Hopefully some others will reply to this, becuase you should have been able to install from CD (Ihave always done it on the net, so I can't comment). Anyway, when you copied the entire CD to harddisk, did you preserve all the symlinks properly? I would expect dselect to bomb if you did not. Then it should be a matter of pointing dselect to the base directory where you have put debian (i.e. the directory that contains bo, hamm, etc. After that, you should be able to select stable or unstable. Cheers. -- Colin Telmer, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations School of Policy Studies Building, Room 309, Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L-3N6 (613)545-6000x4219 <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://terrapin.econ.queensu.ca> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
