Re: reinstalling Sarge 3.1 r4 from a DVD....

2006-12-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 11:22:43PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > I couldn't get the DVD mounting stuff fixed so I decided to reinstall the > OS from scratch. just a word to the wise. once installed, unless you totally bork the system somehow, you should never need to

reinstalling Sarge 3.1 r4 from a DVD....

2006-12-06 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, I couldn't get the DVD mounting stuff fixed so I decided to reinstall the OS from scratch. I tried booting from a DVD. This worked at the start but eventually ther OS wanted regular CDs which it gave the numbers for and would not accept DVD images as an alternative.