Subject: Re: More on Install
From: jerry (jondola@mtaonline.net)
Date: Sun Jan 27 2002 - 06:33:10 AKST
On Sat, 2002-01-26 at 21:42, Adam Elkins wrote:
>
> I can boot to root, How do I manually install things? I can't seem to
> mount the cdrom or floppy, when I mount /mnt/cdrom, I get; can't find
> /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab....I'm lost.
Debian has there root tree setup a little differant than others,the
cdrom should be mounted to /cdrom, you should be able to see that from
/ I see from another post that you can get root, to install further
packages and/or upgrade, try the following:
cd /etc/apt
ls -all look for entries similiar to the following:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free
You can change the 'main' above to suite your flavor of debian
after ensuring the above is good to go, and you have internet access,
you can run the following command:
apt-get update
apt-get install <some package name>
apt-get -f install 'should' fix any problems from a failed install
additionally, there is 'dselect'
just enter the above on the command line and dselect will will ask some
questions, and then provided you have internet access, it will present
you with a fairly comprehensive list of packages you can select for
installation.
Jerry
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