- dpkg-ftp is a separate program under projects/experimental (chek withint the zgrep ls-lR.gz (only 100Kb ;-)
- yes dselect will do itif you have all or just what you know you need. My experience is that you never now exactly all the dependencies so if you don't have all.... Anyway you can install partially with dselect, and if you don't have all what you need to resolve the dependencies, just switch to the next virtual console (<alt>-Fn) and ftp the missing package. Then switch back and resolve the problem within dselect. - Also, If dpkg-ftp is an option for you, maybe mounting NFS the whole thing is also viable (check the mirrors page). good luck! ______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________ Subject: dpkg-ftp or installing via FTP Author: debian-user@lists.debian.org at cclink Date: 02.08.96 21:36 Hi guys, I grabbed and installed dpkg-ftp. But I see no mention of any ftp usage when I run dpkg --help. Is there supposed to be a separate binary called dpkg-ftp? Because I can't find any... I'm trying to download the latest Debian distribution via FTP, but I've had problems both with ncftp and with dftp. I was hoping dpkg-ftp would be a better solution... Another suggestion was to mirror debian. How much space is required to mirror? Can a mirror be partial? Lastly, once I've gotten all that's required from FTP, is dselect a good method to use for performing the install? Thanks, Ricardo