On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 04:41:27PM -0700, ian mckerrow wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm a newbie who's constantly getting tripped up by MS > baggage. I recently installed slink from CD onto a > amarda 4160T laptop as a trial and it all worked (up > to a point). I read docs which indicated the pcmcia > works better under potato so with false confidence I > decided to install it from the web. I downloaded the > files from debian.org to a dos partition. I have also > dowloaded selected packages, keeping the file > structure, also to the dos partition. When I boot to > Linux I'm fine until 'Apt Configuration'. I have 5 > choices, CD (not auto detected), filesystem, http, ftp > & edit sources by hand. It asks me to enter the > mirror directory. Slink had an auto detect which > worked but I can't figure out the the keystrokes for > the dos partition.
Mount your dos-partition (man mount). Then use "filesystem". HTH BTW, if you are doing a new installation, I would use potato. It is stable since some weeks. -- Thomas Guettler Office: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.interface-business.de Private:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://yi.org/guettli
