Thanks so much, Oli! I finally just loaded stock sarge (I couldn't even get sarge to work in expert install mode so that I could disable pcmcia and dhcp), THEN disabled dhcp, copied all the files onto my usr, var, and home filesystems (the standard install doesn't let you reuse your old filesystems, or I had some problem there), modified the sources.list to reflect testing instead of stable, added several mirrors (for some reason, it sometimes has trouble connecting to ftp.us.debian.org (loading problem?)), did apt-get update, upgrade, then dist-upgrade, and now everything seems stable.
Of course, this means I'm still running with the sarge kernel, instead of etch, and have built-in pcmcia support in a server, which was my whole reason for getting started into this downward spiral. Thanks so much for the response, though. I couldn't look at the man pages (my system was unbootable) to do an apropos, so didn't know about apt-cdrom until last night, when I finally got it back again. Guess an in-depth web search would have turned it up, though. Thanks again. > -----Original Message----- > From: Olafur Jens Sigurdsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 12:09 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Can't find libselinux1 > > > Hi Allen, try to read the man page for apt-cdrom, it tells > apt-get to fetch packages from the cdrom instead of from the > net if that is what you really want (it is best to fetch > packages from the net since then you allways have access to > the lates packages), read the man page for apt-cdrom and > perhaps some web pages about how apt works (recomend perhaps > by starting at wikipedia > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Tool :-) ). > > Oli > > Þann 2006-06-11, 19:16:01 (-0400) skrifaði Allen Williams: > > Well, being so overwhelmed with response, I finally just > copied over > > the libdevmapper.so.1.01 into libdevmapper.so.1.02, and moved up to > > where now mount (which also couldn't find libdevmapper) can't find > > libselinux1. Understandably, since it is not on my disk or CD, not > > even a earlier version I can copy. I can find the deb > package for it > > on my CD, but have no idea how to make it available to mount as a > > library. > > > > How do you make a .deb package available to the installer? I have > > found the apt-*, and the pkgcache file, but have no idea > how to tell > > apt-cache to "put this .deb file into this pkgcache" so apt-get can > > get to it. When I do an apt-cache add, it says > "unimplemented", and > > the documentation says that's for source packages, anyway. > > > > > > Thanks & Regards, > > ---------------- > > Allen Williams > > (321)258-1272 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
