I've been unsuccessful in installing Debian 0.93R6 onto my home PC using an NFS mount over a SLIP connection at work here. This is where I am at:
1) Base installation and boot is OK. 2) NFS mount of debian tree over SLIP is OK. 3) Selecting packages using 'dselect' is OK. When I proceed with the installation of the selected packages, infrequent transmission errors, CRC failures etc. occur and dpkg is unable to recover, leaving everything in a half-baked state that I have been unable to fix. Is there a more robust version of dpkg that can do this reliably (ie. go and get the files that don't transfer properly) ? My hard drive is only 128MB, so I can't ftp everything over first and then install locally. I really don't want to install from floppies. I have access to a laptop that I could borrow - is it possible to due an installation from the laptop to my PC using the serial ports ? Thanks for any help! (Sorry for the length of this post...) Mark +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mark E. Rollins, PhD | Communications Research Center | | Research Scientist, | 3701 Carling Ave, | | Satellite Systems and Technologies | Box 11490, Station H, | |------------------------------------| Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA, K2H 8S2 | | Phone: 613-990-8795 |----------------------------------| | Fax: 613-990-0316 | Just Brew It. | | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
