chunjiang fu wrote: > > Install Package question: > Hi! all, I finally got installation of the > debian/linux 2.1 on my old 486 machine. But I still > have a problem: I could not install the basic package > from the CD(2 CD set). I selected the basic package > and use the access method as fellow: > 1). Multi-CD, It asked me the CD device like: enter > the name of the device [/dev/cdrom]: I entered: > /dev/cdrom, not work. /cdrom, not work. /dev/cdu31a(my > CD driver), not work. > 2). apt: did like the instruction. Like change source > list? [Y]. File: /cdrom enter. stable enter. main > contrib enter. add other packages [N] > Alt F2: mddir /cdrom enter: can not make cdrom: file > exists. > mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /cdrom enter > the kernel does not reconize the it as block device > (maybe "insmod" device) > Back to dselect menu: Upgrade...... > get file: ..... > error can not get: /cdrom/...../packages.gz > .......... > error staus 1 > I tried the two CDs. not work. > I can reach the CD by cd /cdrom command. > debian ~#/cdrom and ls -al the top file. > Could some one help me solve these problems > thank you. >
Well, I understood that you have got the first phase of installation ok (=your machine boots), and you are trying to install rest of the system using dselect (aren't you?) That multi-cd problem in dselect sounds familiar, and I DON'T exactly know what is the problem here. When I bought a slink distribution, I got a set of two cds. The first one had all binaries you need when installing, the other one had sources and so on. My installation worked well just using only the first CD and just CDROM as method. Anyway, in my opinion dselect is quite horrible tool. Take a look at apt, apt-get, apt-cdrom and dpkg when you have got your debian running. Hope this helps -------------------------------------------------------------------- Esko Lehtonen WYSINWYG - [EMAIL PROTECTED] What You See Is Never What You Get ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
