Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > > > Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: > > > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > > > > > > Was that a kernel you brewed yourself with kernel-package? Then it > > > > probably wasn'

Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > > > Hello Joost and thanks for the reply. > > > > I've been tinkering with dselect and I think I've figured out enough to > > get it to do what it can for me

Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > > > > Was that a kernel you brewed yourself with kernel-package? Then it > > > probably wasn't mentioned in a "Packages" file. How would dselect know > > > ab

Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > > Was that a kernel you brewed yourself with kernel-package? Then it > > probably wasn't mentioned in a "Packages" file. How would dselect know > > about your package then? > > It's one from Herbert Xu that's not showing up in stable or bo-update: >

Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Henry Hollenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Joost Kooij wrote: > On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > > > Hello Joost and thanks for the reply. > > > > I've been tinkering with dselect and I think I've figured out enough to > > get it to do what it can for me

Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Joost Kooij
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > Hello Joost and thanks for the reply. > > I've been tinkering with dselect and I think I've figured out enough to > get it to do what it can for me..as far as that goes. Oh, sorry, I didn't quite get that. > But I'm trying to do a "custom" inst

Re: dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Hello Joost and thanks for the reply. I've been tinkering with dselect and I think I've figured out enough to get it to do what it can for me..as far as that goes. But I'm trying to do a "custom" install with alots of selected packages for a bastion host/firewall. This would be cumbersome t

dselect (Re: Using dpkg for a custom installation from cdrom media)

1998-03-03 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Henry Hollenberg wrote: > I have a particular list of packages I would like to install saved in > a file and am using a 3 CD-ROM Debian 1.3.1 set I got with Dale Scheetz's > book as my media. > > I imagine I need to mount the cdrom and use dpkg --get-selections and > dpkg --s