On Sun, 12 Jan 1997, Richard Sevenich wrote: > > I recently updated from Debian 1.1.4 to Debian 1.2.1 using a CDROM supplied > by Dale Scheetz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I decided to update via dselect and > would like to share my experience. Dale responded graciously to several of > my questions to get me started. Here is the scenario:
Richard is being over generous with his praise. I was highly distracted (cooking dinner) and, as I remember it, the gist of my response to him was a long winded version of "you need a symlink somewhere". This analysis is very nice. Thank you Richard. I will be sure to include the stable link and change the non-free/binary-i386 to binary in the next release (1.2.3). For those using an earlier release, the following is a complete solution. > > 0. mount the cd; let's say '/cdrom' is the mount point > 1. 'dpkg -i /cdrom/rex-fixed/binary-i386/base/ldso_1.8.5-1.deb' > to satisfy a predepend for perl update > 2. 'ln -sf /cdrom/rex-fixed /stable' > 3. 'ln -sf /cdrom/contrib /contrib' > 4. 'dselect' > 5. Within dselect, choose "mounted (Install from a mounted file system > which is already mounted)" as the access method - restrain yourself > from choosing "cdrom" as the access method. > 6. When dselect asks for "distribution top level [none]', enter '/' > 7. It will complain about not finding 'non-free/binary-i386', so enter > 'cdrom/non-free/binary' - note no initial '/' > 8. The cd didn't have a 'local', so at that point I entered 'none' > 9. You'll now be admitted into the bowels of dselect to make your software > selections etc. > > Some of the choices above seem non-intuitive/capricious, but I trundled down > some blind paths before this worked for me - you may find a more sensible > scenario. > > Regards, Richard > Luck, Dwarf ------------ -------------- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 ------------ If you don't see what you want, just ask -------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]