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individually, and the correct answer is  none . See the Notes section on page 53

for more details.

harddisk

Use this access method only when the hard disk device containing the archive

is not yet mounted.

What you need to know:

  Device name for the hard disk partition containing the archive.

  Path to the various archives.

dselect will ask for the device name of the disk partition containing the archive.

Once it has successfully mounted this partition it will request the path to the

 top level  of the distribution. If you have a standard distribution this should

be the path to the sub tree, main/binary i386, otherwise the answer is  none .

See the Notes section on page 53 for more details.

mounted

When the archive of the distribution is already mounted, this option only

needs to know where the  top level  of the distribution is. This method does

not care if the device containing the archive is a hard disk, a CD ROM, or

an NFS mount on another machine, so this method can be used to make

a nonstandard CD ROM or NFS mount  look  like a standard distribution.

This can be done by constructing a subdirectory tree that will act as the

 top level  of the distribution. Create a mount point (subdirectory) in the

 top level  directory and mount the CD ROM or NFS to that mount point.