On 10-Aug-99 Pollywog wrote: > I copied some new images to a set of floppies and installed the base > system > to my ThinkPad (seven floppies) and all goes well until I have to choose > how to install the rest of the system. The FTP option is gone, and I can > only use it with APT and this is not good, because I cannot get to my > CDROM > that way. The CD is on another machine and is mounted to my home > directory, mount point /home/pollywog/debian > > I am not set up for anonymous FTP, so is there a way to get APT to log in > with a password? >
Nevermind folks. I tried and tried but apt-get was unable to find Packages.gz on my CD no matter what I did, so I am downloading the rest of the system from Debian's ftp using apt-get. It will take 12 hrs but there was no other way. thanks -- Andrew
