order a cd !! my first debian install took 3 days due to bad cds and broken mirrors. i have found that ftp.fuller.edu is a good mirror site, metalab's mirror was BADLY broken (had about half of slink) and i think cdrom's was too. www.linuxmall.com has good quality slink cds. cheap too. there was another place i ordered from that said were good(forgot the name it was over a year ago) and it was crap, tons of CRC errors and curropted files. and i advise against doing a download of the whole tree and installing it like that, the tree is so complex its bound to screw up most of the time. have you tried a ftp install? ive done a few ftp installs and they go perfectly everytime.
nate ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 11:52am up 75 days, 23:19, 1 user, load average: 0.34, 0.28, 0.28 On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Mock Ko wrote: > I'm pretty much now at the give-up point in trying to > install debian. > > This is indeed a very hard thing for me to do, since I > used to install 68k bsd systems manually (building > scripts to mknod all the devices and such). > > I have now downloaded the ENTIRE debian tree, hoping > that would help, but all I've done is waste download > time. > > If I select "update" and then try to install, it looks > for dpkg-perl part 1 and then fails when it can't find > it (it says "I am looking for version of dpkg-perl" > - i.e. there is something seriously screwy with the > script). > If I don't select update, it installs a bunch of the > programs that were selected, but it fails in the > configuration phase of a bunch of them (this happens > even when I select a basic setup such as > workstation-std in the quick-select program). > > This is now my 6th attempt at installing debian. I > have so far not made it past the dselect phase even > once. > > All I want to do is install a base system with tcp-ip > and ipx networking, dhcpcd, X, and a basic window > manager, so that I can go and get the latest kde, run > some kind of GUI package manager, and then install any > other things as I need them. > I have no need for sendmail, ftpd, httpd, emacs, tex, > and just about 98% of the other stuff that seems to > get installed anytime you select anything besides the > base install. > > Is there any way I can do this with Debian, or should > I be seeking a different distribution? > > > ===== > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >