I'm trying to install potato on a computer with no cdrom and a slow net connection (56k modem and an free ISP that cuts off after 6 hours of connection time). I tried to install via downloading the entire /dists/frozen/main/binary-i386 tree. This didn't work and gave me errors, so I also downloaded the /dists/frozen/main/source/Sources.gz file and /dist/frozen/main/source/base tree. With those install still chokes with a fairly cryptic message about a problem with the Merge List in /var/state/apt/lists/_mnt_hdc1_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packages
Does anyone have any ideas on what I've missed downloading? Does anyone have a any other ideas for getting potato on this machine? I don't think an ftp install is such a good idea, because like I said, my ISP cuts the connection every six hours and it will likely take much longer than that to do a full install of every thing I want. I'd greatly appreciate some help. Thanks, -lee
