Re: installation prob

2000-02-27 Thread Kent West
sheri cregger wrote: > > I've been trying to install Debian on a 486 laptop > with floppies copied from the Debian site onto my > desktop computer(I have no cdrom drive on the laptop). > > Installing the base system went really well, but when > I try to use dselect to add more packages, I run int

Re: installation prob

2000-02-26 Thread Marshal Wong
try decompressing the file on to your hard disk and then using the command "dpkg --merge-avail /Packages" I couldn't get dselect to work either, but this is a work around. Apperently dpkg can't read compressed files. Marshal > "sheri" == sheri cregger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've