At Sat, 01 Jun 2002 16:52:26 +1000, Bill Taylor wrote: > 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.
apparently that was a bug (in base-config?). the recent installs i've done haven't had a problem, so i presume things are fixed now. all you should need to do is give apt an up to date internet mirror as well as your cds, and it will find the newest version of each package (which would include the fixed base-config). make sure you list your cds *first* in /etc/apt/sources.list in order to install base-config at the right time, you would need to do this during the initial install phase (ie: when booting off the install media (cd, floppy, etc). before rebooting onto your harddrive). > 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? i don't understand what you mean here.. "giving apt-get all the cds", presumably means letting apt find out about all the packages on all the cds. this is normal (and equivalent to pointing apt at an internet mirror that has the full debian archive). at this point in the install, you are presented with tasksel or dselect (depending on if you choose "simple" or "advanced") and then left to choose things from a list. you should be able to just run "tasksel" or "dselect" manually at this point. or you could choose individual packages and install them with apt-get. for example, at this point i normally install aptitude (a dselect replacement) with "apt-get install aptitude", and then install other things through that. a good way to cope with the vast range of packages available in debian is to "lazily install" them. don't install anything, then wait until you realise you need something and install it then. once you find the package name, its just a matter of listing it on the "apt-get install" command line. > I can't see how to list what is available. tasksel or dselect can provide you with a coarse of fine grained list. any of the dselect replacements i listed in an earlier slug email today will do the same. just install one of those, then use it. > amongst that many packages there are sure to be conflicts if it > loads them all, or am i underestimating the smarts of apt? you are underestimating the smarts of apt ;) (assuming there are no bugs) apt/dpkg won't let you install conflicting packages. > this is not helped by the fact that i only seem to have cat and > more; lynx, less, mc haven't loaded yet. well then, there's your first list of packages to install: apt-get install lynx less mc you currently have a *very* basic install of debian - only the barest essentials are installed during the first phase. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
