Well after weeks and days of trying I finally got this thing to work......,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] your method of fixing this worked and was straight to the point. I do appreciate everyones efforts in helping me out with this particular problem. I have seen several comments posted about what the docs do and don't say when installing. This was one of those situations that the documentation sayed nothing about. It would be nice to have who ever takes care of the web sites to at least post this particular problem and solution there. Once again, Thanks for everyones help. Tony Koehn Our Town USA, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] DW>Ok, here is the problem: DW>The current base disk has an older version of libc5 than the one in the DW>archive. This makes a bare install have some of the same characteristics DW>of an upgrade. There appears to be a problem with the ftp method in this DW>reguard. I just did a fresh install, with the current archive, from CD and DW>everything worked fine. DW>The prescribed solution: DW>Treat this like an upgrade. After you reboot and answer the DW>password/account questions, dselect is started. Exit dselect with Q and DW>set up an ftp session. Download the libc5 version from the archives and DW>install it with dpkg -i. At this point you should be able to proceed with DW>the dselect ftp install. As a precaution, I would suggest at least one DW>other package be installed this way before you begin the dselect DW>installation, that being the perl package. This package is partially DW>represented on the base disks and under certain circumstances (possibly DW>related to the ftp method in dselect) doesn't behave as well as when DW>"fully" configured. There is also the slim possibility that dselect go DW>"broken" in some fashion by the partial installation and subsequent DW>failures. Re-installing it, after libc5, "by hand", will certainly not DW>hurt, and it could be a potential help. DW>In any case, some subset of the above approach should get you out of DW>trouble. I'm not sure what the proceedure is to recover from a broken DW>system like the one you get with the ftp method. It appears that the other DW>advice that you got on that front was less than successful. Try a fresh DW>install, one more time ;-), and follow the above proceedure. It should DW>provide you with more success than the "advertised" approach you have been DW>trying. DW>On Sat, 5 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DW>> Well here we go again.... DW>> DW>> A little background so some of you remember..... DW>> DW>> I installed debain 1.3 (7) times. Have been having trouble getting DW>> dselect to install files using the ftp access method. I keep getting DW>> this can't map /lib/libc message. DW>> DW>> Well someone sugested that I type this.... DW>> DW>> ln -s /lib/libc.so.5.4.33 libc.so DW>> ln -s /lib/libm.so.5.4.33 libm.so DW>> DW>> Well I did and I thought it was going to work... But I still get the DW>> same error messages when using deselect. DW>> DW>> Now I can install packages individually using dpkg -i <package> This DW>> works fine and thats what I have been having to do. DW>> DW>> So why do I get this error? Is this going to happen everytime I want DW>> to use dselect to upgrade?? Is this suppose to be this way? I didn't DW>> think so.... DW>> DW>> I am at a loss still... Any suggestions? Shall I start over?? Could DW>> it simply be the mother board? I believe this is a HOT307 386 DW>> Motherboard with 8 megs ram. DW>> DW>> DW>> Tony DW>> This email originated from ourtownusa.com. DW>> DW>> DW>> DW>> DW>Dwarf DW>-- DW>_-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- DW>aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 DW> Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road DW> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 DW>_-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- This email originated from ourtownusa.com. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
