On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 09:05:38PM -0600, Pat Greenwood wrote: > Due to the amount of time it was taking to obtain selected packages in > dselect, I edited against the Access defaults to try specific mirror > sites. I'm back to what I think were the suggested paths. I've tried: > http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US and > http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US non-US main contrib non-free > which I determined from reading the source for apt. I've attached my /etc/apt/sources.list file to this email; you should be able to simply copy it if you want a fairly bleading-edge system (potato distribution, with yet-to-land gnome and gnome-apt front-end. Of cource, you don't need to get gnome if you don't want it.)
> Is it unrealistic to expect success attempting to install from the net > or should I surrender to CD's? It is absolutly reasonable, and I think would be considered a bug if it dosn't work. > Is there a faster way to obtain some bells and whistles via the net? My > current plan is to Install the minimum necessary to get X Window running > with wmaker and a couple of games, then add packages later. I'd suguest enlightenment over wmaker, btw, but that's largely a personal choice. -=- James Mastros
# Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs #deb ftp://debian.midco.net/debian stable main contrib non-free non-US #deb ftp://debian.midco.net/debian unstable main contrib non-free non-US #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free #deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main deb http://www.debian.org/~mblevin/gnome-apt unstable main deb http://pages.infinit.net/linux debian/