* Scott Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020417 19:44]: > On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 18:27, GQ Kokidko wrote: > > I am a new user and have installed the base system of the stable debian > > linux on hdb1 and windows 2000 on hda1. I can boot to linux and windows > > and > > have lilo configured properly but dselect and tasksel aren't able to find > > the packages (which are on hda1 in order to install them. Tasksel cant see > > them at all (is there a config file or something I can point it too) and > > dselect can see them to tell me whats > > available. After I go through the million and a half debian packages and > > choose what I want to install, when I go to install it either looks at a > > different location or doesn't find what it needs (even though I downloaded > > everything in the i386 binary directory and fails to install. Thanks for > > any help > > > > Matt Kokidko
(It's *much* easier to install debian either from cd or from the web directly. I assume there are reasons you can't so you have to go the hard way:) You obviously seem to have access to you hda1 partition from linux. Assume you have mounted it to /mnt/winc Two possibilities: 1. (Unlikely) You downloaded the packages into the same directories like they were on the server - that means you have directories named like dists/potato/main/binary-i386 or the like. In this case put the following into your /etc/apt/sources.list file: deb /mnt/winc/[some-directory]/ potato main non-free contrib (where [some-directory] is the windows directory which is parent of the "dists" directory). Then you run dselect update If that works you're fine and ready to install. 2. You downloaded all the *.deb files into a single directory. Now you can create your personal debian repository from them with dpkg-scanpackages. Most propably this will be too difficould for a Linux or Debian newbie (no insult, but it's really not easy). Instead do the following: If you have enough space on your Linux partition (you can see that with the "df" or "df -h" command), copy all the files ending with deb into the /var/cache/apt/archives directory. Forget about the Packages.gz files, they are useless to you. Afterwards you should be able to install all the packages. If there is not enough space you will have to go the dpkg-scanpackages way. BTW: You can anytime install single deb files with the dpkg command. Run dpkg -i [somefilename].deb and it will install itself if all dependencies are fulfilled. That's the RedHat/SuSE level of comfort. You have to be root for that. Keep up the faith, Karsten -- Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CAU-University Kiel, Germany Registered Linux User #221014 (http://counter.li.org) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
