Many thanks to Amaury for providing a perfect guide to the install! I did notice, during my three days of trying to to get the ftp install to work, was that cooker and mirror do not belong in the same sentence! Here's a suggestion for those who will try this,
1 find a more complete mirror - (one mirror i used didn't have the mdkinst/usr/bin files) The mirrors i had the best results with were ftp.sunet.se and ftp.nluug.nl 2 download the entire i586 directory tree to a box on your network ( using ncftp get -R ) 3 setup a local ftp server on that box 4 start the install using your local server 5 when you the messages come up that a package can't be installed, just proceed. 6 ctrl-alt-f3 to see the exact package you are missing 7 once the package install is complete, wait before moving on to network setup 8 while your installation is paused, fetch the missing packages from another mirror (i was missing console-tools, python base, and libpython) 9 once you have the missing packages in the tree (on your local ftp server) proceed with the rest of the install. Once you get past the network setup, setup tries again to install the missing packages, whereas it will now find and install them... 10. follow the rest of the how-to (really, read and follow every word!) Again, thanks for the how-to, it was perfect.... Ron ===== ^C quit :q exit ? help shit __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com
