: : : Oh woops, that was supposed to read 'do that before running dselect' :> : : > the apt step after doing all I can from the CD. The apt step is very useful : > as it updates anything which is old from the CD's and perhaps adds new : > things which are not on the CD, all while saving me hours and hours of : > download time if I were to do 100% network install. Its a very good : > combination! : : You can get APT 0.3.11.1 from http://www.debian.org/~jgg/ which has : native support for CD-ROMS, run the apt-cdrom tool and you can combine the : CD with the downloading with preference given to the CD. : : Jason : Maybe I am not making it clear that at that point I am in the middle of executing an install script from the CD. I see no way to abort it while retaining the profiles completing the execution of that script, which does additional needed things after dselect completes.
Ron
