I don't have an isp for the computer (silly, I know), and I have already installed the base system, which seems to be in fine working order. What I did was to swap the hd into a WinNT box (on my LAN w/ 100Mbit connection at work) and download the lot to that, but I somehow managed to loose the directories along the way. I'll try doing another download and remember to reformat the dos-partition to vfat to allow long names. Thanks again for all the help; I'm slowly beginning to understand... Regards Vitux
Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: Kent West [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sendt: 8. juni 1999 23:32 > Til: Wichmann, Viggo > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Emne: Re: SV: A little further: Short newbie question > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Thanks a tremendous lot for all the help. It really helps keeping my > spirit > > up as a newbie. > > I managed to mount the dos partition allright, but it seems like dselect > > wants an exact copy of the ftp-site, which is a problem since I can't > make > > the directory "binary-i386" with only 8 characters allowed in dos. > > Seems like I'm gonna have to borrow a cd-drive off of somebody and try > to do > > the installation from there, alternatively (re)install the winbastard in > the > > dos-partition to be able to use longer names. Damn. > > Anyone got any brilliant ideas for a (masochist?!) newbie?! > > Regards > > Vitux > > > > Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer... > > You can download the base install to floppies (7 or 10 or so) and install > the base. > That will get you a minimal system that is capable of dialing into your > ISP, at which > time you can configure dselect to use ftp or the apt method. Then whenever > you > install a package you'll get the most recent stable release (or unstable > if you so > specify) by downloading at install time. On a slow dial-up link, it takes > some time, > but it sure is easy. Be aware that if you want to re-use the downloaded > files, you > may have to do some finagling, because I believe the apt method > automatically deletes > the deb files after they've been installed. > > >