guran remberg wrote: > total wrote: > > How can I get the debian installer to acquire the first set of packages > > (which it wants) from my local HD (not the inet)? > > Hi > I don't understand your 'algoritm' of the installation. > > After having installed the the rescue disk and the drivers, then the network > is > configured. After that the installation program asks for where to find the > base2.tgz, > and one of the options is a prevously mounted partition. If this partition > have been > named by you to have the name /mnt/alfa, and if the directory has the name > beta, then > you should give the following information to the installation program > /target/mnt/alfa/beta. > Then the 15 or so MB will be installed from your hard drive.
Thanks guran. What you describe is step 2 of my install procedure, where the base2_2.tgz & drivers.tgz are loaded from my local HD. That it does fine. :-) It's the next step, where it proceeds to dl 5MB through the modem, that I want it to do differently - read the rest of the base system deb files (which I've saved from a previous install) from my local HD. Any ideas? Anyone know who wrote the installer? Thanks.
