I just installed Slink over Hamm. In other words I used the official cd
and created new partions. The base installed fine. I got to the point
where you can pick which packages and profiles to install on your
system. I chose the "Custom" option. When I got to the custom section
I couldn't select any of the options such as "Administrative" (something
like that). I could move the cursor up and down but when I hit return
nothing was selected. This part seemed to be broken. I backed out of
that and selected "Dial-up" In the access method of dselect I chose to
install from cdrom set. Hit update, hit install, dselect began
unpacking the programs then a message flashed by that said something
about a dpkg broken pipe. Then tons of error messages I couldn't
catch. Then I was put in the position in dselect to configure the
packages. I selected that and got the following error,
running --pending --configure...
dpkg: parse error, in file '/var/lib/dokg/updates/0039' near line 1:
newline in field name '#padding'
dpkg --configure returned error
exit status 2.
I was never asked to put the second cd in which surprised me. I thought
Slink was a two cd installation. Hamm was my first Linux instillation.
Worked the first time. I guess I just got lucky. I reinstalled Slink
three times and still get the errors I described. What is going on with
this?
Thanks,
Kent
