At Wed, 15 May 2002 06:33:08 +1000, Michael Still wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 2002, Angus Lees wrote: > > At Tue, 14 May 2002 22:12:11 +1000, Michael Still wrote: > > > No, the install stopped when it said it couldn't find libpopt. It > > > surprised me, because this was my first time installing Debian, and I > > > expected it to just work... The Redhat installer is much sexier IMHO. > > > > when you say "stopped", i presume it gave you some error message and > > allowed you to retry? > > Well, I was installing of this rediculously large 8 CD woody set that a > friend copied for me.
unless you will never see the internet again, you only really need the first cd or two.. the packages are sorted by popularity (see the popularity-contest package). > He has successfully installed from it, so perhaps the copy is > dodgy. The installer retried, but failed anyway. any error message given? -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
