I don't think this exchange made it to debian-user because there were 2 addresses in the To: header, so I'll resend the whole exchange to the list for the archives.
On October 31, 2002 07:39 pm, Levi Waldron wrote: > On October 31, 2002 02:13 pm, Joe Riel wrote: > > I had tried that, but there was, alas, no option for multi-CD. > > I have no idea how many packages might be broken. > > apt-get install dpkg-multicd > > (I think this should be in the dselect tutorial section of the debian > install manual but it isn't - I'll submit a bug report to install-doc > unless someone knows why I shouldn't) > > Then you will have access to the multicd method in dselect. There are > instructions for using it in the debian installation manual -> Advanced > Package Selection with dselect -> dselect tutorial: > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/dselect-beginner > > You can also add multiple cd's to your sources with apt-cdrom. > Just put a cd in and type "apt-cdrom add", or "apt-cdrom -cdrom /mountpoint > add" if it can't find your cd. "man apt-cdrom" for more info. Then you > could use > apt-get remove packagename and > apt-get install packagename > to re-install packages. > > > Is there a way to restart tasksel so that it will prompt for all the > > tasks again [not just the ones that weren't selected the previous time]? > > I don't know about this, but it looks like tasksel only installs packages > that aren't installed yet. You might have to remove them with another > package like apt-get, aptitude, or dselect before installing them again. On November 1 2002, Joe Riel wrote: I tried the first approach, running dselect and chosing multicd, after first installing dpkg-multicd. It was not at all clear what to do after that. http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/dselect-beginner implies that using multicd access is a bit tricky; that is correct. I never got it to work. So I changed the access method to apt--- previously I had assumed that that was only for downloads from a web site---and things proceeded much smoother. dselect would now query for the proper CD when it needed to install a selected package. Thanks, Joe Riel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
