Pieter-Tjerk de Boer wrote: [dselect errors] > Since then, this error message pops up every time I try [I]nstall. I'm > telling all these details because I suspect that somehow this was not the > right way to cope with the two changes (newer NFS server, and newer > 'stable' distribution).
As the co-maintainer of that NFS server you're talking about, I know the contents of it (the directory layout, I mean) didn't change. It only got moved to a new machine (with a different hostname). So that won't cause your problem, I'd say. As you're using a `hamm'-machine at the moment (the previous stable Debian version), you should start with reading the hamm-to-slink-upgrade instructions, I think. You can find them here: http://www.debian.org/releases/2.1/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html Second, I suggest using apt when upgrading. Detailed instructions about using apt to upgrade your system are in the same document. To use apt, you need to create a /etc/apt/sources.list file as pointed out in that document. At the University of Twente, this one is proven to work good: deb http://ftp.student.utwente.nl/debian slink main contrib non-free deb http://ftp.student.utwente.nl/debian-non-US slink non-US deb http://ftp.student.utwente.nl/debian dists/slink-proposed-updates/ Note that the last line includes the 'proposed updates' of slink, which are not yet part of the 'stable' distribution, but I recommend installing them anyway (security fixes etc). Good luck! Regards, -Remco