On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 11:01:25AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi. I'm in the process of trying yet another installation attempt > of debian-ppc on a Starmax 5000. > > I didn't go through the entire installation process, because the > kernel and module files hadn't downloaded right, but I got close > enough that I was able to download stuff like lynx, and do a > dist-upgrade... > > I have a slight problem, though. It's not showing the great majority > of packages I know to be available (like the X packages) as > being available. I'm not sure whether the system entered this > state before or after I downloaded lynx. > > Anyway, what precisely should I be using for my sources.dist > file? Is there possibly a bug in dselect or apt?
change the 'stable' distribution to 'frozen' or better yet 'potato' in the apt source file. You could also use and install console-apt, which is somewhat nicer than dselect. Friendly, Sven LUTHER
