Greetings; I've just today, tried to install the 14 disk set is 3.1 (sarge) onto a drive in a test box, but after the one disk was done, it asked to be rebooted rather than asking for more disks, this despite my using the 'expert26' install argument.
So I ran aptitude when it was rebooted since the basic install doesn't put much on, leaving a bare bones system only. I spent the majority of the day wandering around in aptitude, both looking for the everything option or trying to find both perl-5.8.x or enough x11 to get a gui running, without finding either. So I brought the disks back up here to this machine and ran this script against all 14 disks without getting any output indicating I'd actually found either: ----------- #!/bin/sh mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom # so I can see it, then tree /mnt/cdrom sleep 2 # grep for it tree /mnt/cdrom|grep x |grep core tree /mnt/cdrom |grep perl-5.8 umount /mnt/cdrom eject /dev/cdrom ----------- So then I made an MD5SUM file in the directory full of the 3.1 iso's, and I am checking each disk's md5sum against the .iso's to see if I left out a cd in burning them. But so far, everything has matched. I got the same impression that python was missing major pieces also. atp-get update seems to go get the database again, and networking seems to be ok, but an apt-get install perl reports 'there is no candidate for perl'. Humm, I'd assumed that the first disk was already entered into the aptitude database, but thats where perl (and python-2.3 at least) seems to be. So how do I rectify this? Man aptitude seems crypticly quiet on that subject. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
