On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 09:16:53AM -0800, Clyde Wilson wrote: > I reformated my disks and loaded the base potato floppies. > When I run apt under dselect I end up with so many missing > programs that deselect refuses to continue... > > I have selected nothing during dselect, I just want to install > the default 50 or so. > > Has anyone done this lately? This is not an upgrade, but a fresh > install.
I installed a potato system from boot-floppies a few weeks ago and it worked very well. It sounds like you need to check to make sure dselect is trying to use apt to get files, and also check your /etc/apt/sources.list file for errors? Good luck, Nate, [EMAIL PROTECTED]