Installation via PCMCIA ethernet card

I am trying to install Debian 2.1 on a Dell Latitude XPi CD via the network. This computer has a new hard disk, so I partitioned the disk with cfdisk, then started to put Debian on the second partition, leaving the first partition for Windows NT. I went through the dbootstrap procedure of configu

Dselect & script

Try the "mountable" option in dselect (see package dpkg-mountable). It keeps a transcript (in /var somewhere? check the docs). Also don't be confused: each of the options (CD-ROM, mounted, mountable, nfs, etc.) is like a separate program and only bears vague relation to the location of the Debian

simple points..........

plotutils 2.0, but 2.1.4 is the latest version. See http://www.gnu.org/software/plotutils/plotutils.html (actual package on one of the GNU mirrors referenced there, or direct from ftp://platinum.math.arizona.edu/pub/plotutils-2.1.4.tar.gz). -- Liam Healy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Dselect doesn't install from non-free or contrib

I am trying to install a 2.0 beta system from mounted filesystem, /usr/debian which has subdirs main, non-free and contrib. Dselect sees everything, even gives a reasonabe package count in each of the three areas (> 1500 in main, in the hundreds for each of non-free and contrib, as I recall). Whe