On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:08:06PM +0530, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: > On Sun, 6 Jan 2002 08:45:04 +0530 > USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But while installing, though there were no problems, > but I was stumped when the installer asked me to > insert the base disc 1. There was no such thing as > a base disc in the ftp site >
IIRC, there is a series called base-N.bin in the images section of the debian site. For potato there used to be 11 such disks (where N=1 to 11). Don't know how many for Woody, but you don't need all. > > Also tell me what all disks you need for a net install. > > All the disks as mentioned above PLUS one basedeb.tgz package > which, even after thoroughly searching their site,I could not > find. IIRC, there is nothing called basedeb.tgz. There used to be a thing called base2_2.tgz or something like that in potato. Maybe similar for woody. Never seen a thing called basedeb on debian sites, or on the CDs. I have this base2_2.tgz on the potato CD stacked somewhere. IIRC, it is about 1.5 mb. You are probably searching at the wrong place. In debian, the structure is quite standard. It should be under some- thing like: .../dists/woody/main/disks-i386/2.x.xx.kernel-date/ This kernel-no and kernel-date you need to pick up while browsing. HTH Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Whatis database LOST #078 Wondering what all those binaries in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin and other binary directories do ? As root create a whatis database for your system with "makewhatis" command as root. Then as an user type in "whatis some_program". "man whatis" for details. ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>#################################### : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
