Sorry for so many messages. Too much coffee makes me too quick to hit SEND!
Does the "Update" step work correctly? (Do you see the CD-ROM light up and does the system respond appropriately that the available packages have been updated? On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, Ron Stordahl wrote: > Nathan Duehr replied: > > > Ron, > > > > Due to various laws and licenses, the non-free and non-US packages and > > directories are not on the CD-ROM's, for good reason. > > > > Answer "none" for the non-free and non-US stuff, finish installing your > > packages selected, then change your Access method to APT go online and do > > an Update to get the non-US and non-free packages listed in your Select > > list. > > > > Thus I answered 'none' to the question regarding the non-free and non-US > packges > only to be confronted with the same question regarding '_local_ Packages.cd' > file. > Moving forward I have also answered 'none' to this although unlike non-free > and non-US > it would seem that I have no good reason to so answer.. but here goes. > > Having done that and selecting [ I ] for install I immediately get > 'installation script returned > error exit status 1' Then press RETURN to continue which returns me to the > 'dselect' > package handling frontend. > > At this point I would guess the install has basically failed, so there is no > point in not > trying CD 1 starting with [U] for update: > > I did that and it immediately failed with 'installation script returned > error exit status 1'. > > So it looks like my install is dead! > > Can it be this difficult? > > Ron > > > +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | Nate Duehr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Support Amateur Radio & Linux! | | Private Pilot, Telephony Engineer | Ham Callsign: N0NTZ | | UNIX Hack, Perl Hack, Tech-Freak | Grid Square: DM79 | | | "May the Source be with you." | +-----------------------------------+--------------------------------+ | HamRadio and Linux mailing lists available for interested parties: | | http://www.natetech.com/mailman/listinfo | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+