I recently updated from Debian 1.1.4 to Debian 1.2.1 using a CDROM supplied by Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I decided to update via dselect and would like to share my experience. Dale responded graciously to several of my questions to get me started. Here is the scenario:
0. mount the cd; let's say '/cdrom' is the mount point 1. 'dpkg -i /cdrom/rex-fixed/binary-i386/base/ldso_1.8.5-1.deb' to satisfy a predepend for perl update 2. 'ln -sf /cdrom/rex-fixed /stable' 3. 'ln -sf /cdrom/contrib /contrib' 4. 'dselect' 5. Within dselect, choose "mounted (Install from a mounted file system which is already mounted)" as the access method - restrain yourself from choosing "cdrom" as the access method. 6. When dselect asks for "distribution top level [none]', enter '/' 7. It will complain about not finding 'non-free/binary-i386', so enter 'cdrom/non-free/binary' - note no initial '/' 8. The cd didn't have a 'local', so at that point I entered 'none' 9. You'll now be admitted into the bowels of dselect to make your software selections etc. Some of the choices above seem non-intuitive/capricious, but I trundled down some blind paths before this worked for me - you may find a more sensible scenario. Regards, Richard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]