I installed a fresh copy of potato on a box, using the 2.2.7-2000-02-13 boot-disks.
The base system install worked perfectly OK here. The first time I tried to run apt (on a NFS archive), the package scanning done by debconf failed because base-perl was missing getopt. => dpkg -i perl*.deb Then I've used dpkg --get-selections from an other box and dpkg --set-selections. It went mostly smoothly except for: - Every package using debconf asked the questions before install, and in the postinst (maybe the upgrade from debconf-tiny to debconf wiped the database ?) - I had a few seemingly inoffensive warnings about a missing /etc/mailcap. - Wdm refused to install since no /etc/X11/window-managers was there (wdm was the only window manager installed). That's all so far. Oh, and I got bitten by the update-alternatives syntax error, but installing the dpkg found in incoming fixed the problem... Phil.