Bug#4394: dselect does not appear to look for updates when access method is floppy

Package: dpkg Version: 1.2.14elf When using dselect with access method=floppy and filesystem=msdos, and after updating to the latest Packages file (Debian 1.1.8), a number of packages were selected as requiring updating/upgrading. Going on to attempt to Install these packages gave the message

Bug#3999: nfs module fails to load

Package: kernel Version: 2.0.6 I recently updated from debian 1.1 - kernel version 2.0.0 - to 1.1.3 by installing the new package in base/kernel-image-2.0.6_2.0.6-0.deb (plus the updated dpkg and kbd). Rebooting the machine showed that all was working apart from the nfs module failing to load