Re: Help with dselect

2003-12-22 Thread Medi Esmail
Hi again I have tried the G option and its still got some packages which it stats will be removed etc.. is there any other way i can fix dselect ? --- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:31:07PM +1100, Medi Esmail wrote: HI all, I was wondering if i can recover

Help with dselect

2003-12-20 Thread Medi Esmail
HI all, I was wondering if i can recover from a mistake i did using dselect, I was choosing the new kernel package and when it came up with dependencies i found some packages i had were removed etc any way i made some changes and went to the main menu of dselect and chose install at which point it

Re: Help with dselect

2003-12-20 Thread Clive Menzies
On (20/12/03 19:31), Medi Esmail wrote: HI all, I was wondering if i can recover from a mistake i did using dselect, I was choosing the new kernel package and when it came up with dependencies i found some packages i had were removed etc any way i made some changes and went to the main menu

Re: Help with dselect

2003-12-20 Thread Medi Esmail
Hi Clive, I tried that initially but the problem i face is i have quit out of dselect frist time and now it remembers all the selections regardless if i press Q or X or Esc... when I go to Install packages I would like to hope and see there are no packages to install remove or upgrade but instead

Re: Help with dselect

2003-12-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 07:31:07PM +1100, Medi Esmail wrote: HI all, I was wondering if i can recover from a mistake i did using dselect, I was choosing the new kernel package and when it came up with dependencies i found some packages i had were removed etc any way i made some changes and

Help with dselect and custom debs

2001-01-19 Thread Kenneth Lett
I have created some .deb files for use in our department, they customise our debian installs and allow us to automatically update files on our machines through apt-get upgrade. I have these files on our departmental ftp server, under a debian mirror-like directory stucture, where our homebrew

Re: help with dselect (on m68k)

2000-01-28 Thread dkphoto
OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered that my system sees all the folders on it as just plain text files. That's why

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-28 Thread Shaul Karl
I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter: /dev/cdrom ...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the dist on the CD. No matter what I enter, it says it can't find it. This is the

Re: help with dselect (on m68k)

2000-01-28 Thread paul
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, David said: OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered that my system sees all the folders on it

Re: help with dselect (on m68k)

2000-01-28 Thread dkphoto
OK, I've figured out (at least partially) what is going on. dselect is working just fine and so is everything else, except the actual CD. I gave up on dselect and rebooted, then mounted the debian CD and discovered that my system sees all the folders on it as just plain text files. That's

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-27 Thread Clyde Wilson
I just take the default by hitting enter numerous times. The path depends on who made the CD, I would guess. On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote: how did you mount the cd-rom? (what commands did you use?) here's how i do it: # mount /dev/hdc /bt (where /bt is a directory i created.)

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-27 Thread Clyde Wilson
I'm on a PC so things might be different: Debian 2.1 r 2 dselect will try to mount my cdrom on /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt. The install process creates this. The path my dselect defaults to is /debian/dists/stable. All of this is default. I'm not sure why you aren't getting these defaults... On

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-27 Thread dkphoto
This is really getting off the track. I'm getting advice on how to mount a CD and as far as I can tell, I am not having any trouble mounting a CD. I am having trouble determining what path dselect is asking for ON the CD. AFTER the CD is mounted, dselect asks me for the path to the folder /

Re: help with dselect (on m68k)

2000-01-27 Thread paul
Clyde was just trying to help you, you need to be more patient and read more carefully. On most install cds, the distribution path is: /debian/dists/stable If it is not there your on your own. I would suggest exploring the cd and writing down the path when you've found it, then go back to

Re: help with dselect (on m68k)

2000-01-27 Thread dkphoto
Clyde was just trying to help you, you need to be more patient and read more carefully. You're right. It's been a very frustrating day all around. Sorry. It seems I do indeed also have an issue with mounting the CD. Dselect asks me for the name of a block device. Since I cannot find that term

Re: help with dselect (on m68k)

2000-01-27 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote: It seems I do indeed also have an issue with mounting the CD. Dselect asks me for the name of a block device. Since I cannot find that term anywhere in any of the documentation, I'm stuck! What is a block device, and how do I get its name? (Should I

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-27 Thread tschmid
It would be really helpful if someone would just tell me the path that dselect is asking for?? I can go backwards from there to figure out why I didn't get it. First, I need to say that I've never installed Debian on a Mac, so my suggestion could be plain dumb. Well, said suggestion is: Just

Re: help with dselect (on m68k)

2000-01-27 Thread paul
David Kachel wrote: You're right. It's been a very frustrating day all around. Sorry. It seems I do indeed also have an issue with mounting the CD. Dselect asks me for the name of a block device. Since I cannot find that term anywhere in any of the documentation, I'm stuck! What is a

help with dselect

2000-01-26 Thread dkphoto
I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter: /dev/cdrom ...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the dist on the CD. No matter what I enter, it says it can't find it. This is the standard

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-26 Thread Arcady Genkin
dkphoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter: /dev/cdrom ...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the dist on the CD. No matter what I enter, it says

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-26 Thread dkphoto
David, is the CD mounted? If not, have a look at mount command. dselect says it's mounted. (after I enter: dev/cdrom in response to its query) What sort of input is it looking for? Could you give me at least an example? Maybe that would help to clear the fog. David Kachel

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-26 Thread Clyde Wilson
On 26 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin wrote: dkphoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've managed to install the base system and have gotten to dselect which first asks me to help locate the cd drive, with the prompt to enter: /dev/cdrom ...which I do. Then it asks me to help find the the

Re: help with dselect

2000-01-26 Thread dkphoto
how did you mount the cd-rom? (what commands did you use?) here's how i do it: # mount /dev/hdc /bt (where /bt is a directory i created.) i can then type ls /bt and see what's on the cd (as long as it's not a music cd). hth. I don't think dselect is going to let me ls a CD is it?

Help on dselect

1999-04-02 Thread johannes nortje
Good day sir I have a problem, I installed Linux on my personal computer but, when I load dselect to install the software I got with the Linux cd's I don't have the option multi_cd in Access to load this software. When I use the cd-rom choise it ask me for the device block name that I don't

Re: Help on dselect

1999-04-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
johannes nortje wrote: Good day sir I have a problem, I installed Linux on my personal computer but, when I load dselect to install the software I got with the Linux cd's I don't have the option multi_cd in Access to load this software. When I use the cd-rom choise it ask me for the

help with dselect

1999-02-17 Thread Tony
Hi, It's me again, trying desperately to learn Linux... I am trying to use dselect to install some packages into my new install of Debian.. but every time I try to start installing, I get the message: Packages yet to be unpacked: 304 in unknown: vim gnushogi xphoon pwgen tcl8.0 tk8.0

Re: help with dselect again plz

1997-06-28 Thread Peter . Yarych . gandolph
On 25-Jun-97 joost witteveen wrote: Do you want to install the files fetched [y]: Installing files... (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing debian/stable/binary-i386/x11/fl oat bg_1.0-6.deb (--install): files list file for package `mgetty-fax' contains empty filename Errors were

Re: help with dselect again plz

1997-06-28 Thread joost witteveen
Do you want to install the files fetched [y]: Installing files... (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing debian/stable/binary-i386/x11/float bg_1.0-6.deb (--install): files list file for package `mgetty-fax' contains empty filename Errors were encountered while processing:

help with dselect again plz

1997-06-25 Thread Peter . Yarych . gandolph
Do you want to install the files fetched [y]: Installing files... (Reading database ... dpkg: error processing debian/stable/binary-i386/x11/float bg_1.0-6.deb (--install): files list file for package `mgetty-fax' contains empty filename Errors were encountered while processing:

help with dselect

1997-02-20 Thread Mikael Hallendal
Hi! Today I connected to ftp.debian.org with dselect to see if there was any new packages. It was and among them there was a new version of sysklogd. Now the dependences for this one states that it depends on bash (2.0.1). When using ftp I have chosen [unstable contrib non-free] for my

Re: help with dselect

1997-02-20 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Mikael Hallendal wrote: Today I connected to ftp.debian.org with dselect to see if there was any new packages. It was and among them there was a new version of sysklogd. Now the dependences for this one states that it depends on bash (2.0.1). When using ftp I have chosen