Hi all, I managed to get the 8 CDs (May snapshot) tried to load bf 2.4 off the 4th cd, but it needed the 1st cd for the base system. now i'm stuck in the loop as below
Graeme Robinson wrote on 6/5/02:15:22: > so far very smooth. On reboot I get prompted for root pw and > useraccount creation but then I got stuck in a loop: > - requests setting of clock to GMT, - select timezone and city, - > seclect Md5 passwords and - shadow passwords > - and then back to setting of clock to GMT. > > pretty weird. I eventually killed the conf process and can now apt-get > and install stuff ok something to do with the fact that I'm running it > in a virtual machine perhaps? > if I kill the file that keeps looping i presume i will loose the call for the 4th cd to load the rest of the files. silly me ran apt-get and gave it all the CDs, so now it has several thousand packages. is there a way to restrict it to those packages that would have loaded if the install had run normally? the man pages seem to indicate that you specify by name what is to load, and I can't see how to list what is available .amongst that many packages there are sure to be conflicts if it loads them all, or am i underestimating the smarts of apt? this is not helped by the fact that i only seem to have cat and more; lynx, less, mc haven't loaded yet. any clues will be gratefully received, Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
