RE: Loading packages from zip drive

1999-04-06 Thread Chris Reay
I posted this message on 23 March, and received replies from Helmut Metzdorf, Santiago Vila Doncel, Bruce Sass, and ANShevin. Thank you for you help, all of which was useful. This is how I solved the problem. 1. Throw away the Infomagic CD. 2. Download the base distribution from the Debian ftp s

Re: Loading packages from zip drive

1999-03-25 Thread Helmut Metzdorf
Quoting Chris Reay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The process appears to > be collecting information about the packages but doesn't get very far at > all, and after a while finds "too many errors ..." and returns to the > dselect menu without installing the packages. Hi Chris, IMHO there are two possibl

Re: Loading packages from zip drive

1999-03-24 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Chris Reay wrote: > I have an old-ish Toshiba laptop (486, 200 mb, no CD) onto which I have > loaded the Debian v2.0 base system from the dos partition. I now want to add > a few console editing, development (mostly Python and C), and utility > packages; to this end I've copie