> > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > > Fra: Kent West [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sendt: 8. juni 1999 23:32 > > Til: Wichmann, Viggo > > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Emne: Re: SV: A little further: Short newbie question > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Thanks a tremendous lot for all the help. It really helps keeping my > > spirit > > > up as a newbie. > > > I managed to mount the dos partition allright, but it seems like dselect > > > wants an exact copy of the ftp-site, which is a problem since I can't > > make > > > the directory "binary-i386" with only 8 characters allowed in dos. > > > Seems like I'm gonna have to borrow a cd-drive off of somebody and try > > to do > > > the installation from there, alternatively (re)install the winbastard in > > the > > > dos-partition to be able to use longer names. Damn. > > > Anyone got any brilliant ideas for a (masochist?!) newbie?! > > > Regards > > > Vitux > > > > > > Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer... > > > > You can download the base install to floppies (7 or 10 or so) and install > > the base. > > That will get you a minimal system that is capable of dialing into your > > ISP, at which > > time you can configure dselect to use ftp or the apt method. Then whenever > > you > > install a package you'll get the most recent stable release (or unstable > > if you so > > specify) by downloading at install time. On a slow dial-up link, it takes > > some time, > > but it sure is easy. Be aware that if you want to re-use the downloaded > > files, you > > may have to do some finagling, because I believe the apt method > > automatically deletes > > the deb files after they've been installed.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't have an isp for the computer (silly, I know), and I have already > installed the base system, which seems to be in fine working order. What I > did was to swap the hd into a WinNT box (on my LAN w/ 100Mbit connection at > work) and download the lot to that, but I somehow managed to loose the > directories along the way. I'll try doing another download and remember to > reformat the dos-partition to vfat to allow long names. > Thanks again for all the help; I'm slowly beginning to understand... > Regards > Vitux > > Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer Oh, on a LAN; even better. I can't give you specifics, especially after you've installed the base install, because I've always done it during the base install, but the base install (have I said "base install" enough yet?) will allow you to configure your NIC and get your Linux box on the network. Then you can install rather quickly over the net. Of course, you can also do what you've proposed above.
