I used to download the packages to local dos partition and install them from
there. I can recall that dos only allows 8 digits of packages names, which
caused the trouble for dselect to find right packages. You can try that.
But, I would like to buy a distribution cd if I were you. It saves a lot o
When you use dselect, did you chose to install from a existing
partition/filesystem?
> -Original Message-
> From: pplaw [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 3:38 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: accessing the dos partition
>
> hello debian commun
>
> hello debian community,
>
> i've installed the base system from the net. however, i cannot
> access/mount the dos partition, which is where i've downloaded other
> packages. (i've tried "dselect" and "apt-get".)
>
> ...any suggestions.
>
> thx.
>
> bentley taylor.
Create a mount partiti
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