OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is
working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave
up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered
that my system sees all the folders on it as just plain text files.
That's why
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, David said:
OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is
working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave
up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered
that my system sees all the folders on it
OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is
working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave
up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered
that my system sees all the folders on it as just plain text files.
That's
Clyde was just trying to help you, you need to be more patient and read more
carefully. On most install cds, the distribution path is:
/debian/dists/stable
If it is not there your on your own. I would suggest exploring the cd and
writing down the path when you've found it, then go back to
Clyde was just trying to help you, you need to be more patient and read more
carefully.
You're right. It's been a very frustrating day all around. Sorry.
It seems I do indeed also have an issue with mounting the CD. Dselect
asks me for the name of a block device. Since I cannot find that term
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote:
It seems I do indeed also have an issue with mounting the CD. Dselect
asks me for the name of a block device. Since I cannot find that term
anywhere in any of the documentation, I'm stuck! What is a block device,
and how do I get its name? (Should I
David Kachel wrote:
You're right. It's been a very frustrating day all around. Sorry.
It seems I do indeed also have an issue with mounting the CD. Dselect
asks me for the name of a block device. Since I cannot find that term
anywhere in any of the documentation, I'm stuck! What is a
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