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Package Management Tools

It is safe to assume that the archive is standard, since dselect will notice if it

is not and ask again for the location of the top of the archive. See the Notes

section on page 53 for more details.

nfs:

During a fresh installation, when you first get introduced to dselect, there

will only be an Internet connection available if the machine uses an Ethernet

card and it is recognized by the installation kernel. Without this kind of

configuration a PPP/SLIP connection, typically through a modem, must be

established before proceeding with this step. Note: There are several other

ways to make a connection to another machine, local area net, or wide area

net. Ethernet and PPP/SLIP are the most common. By whatever method,

once a connection to the desired host is available, this method can be used.

What you need to know:

  URL to the NFS mount.

  Directory structure found on that mount.

When this option is chosen, the first request is for the domain name of the

NFS server. This can be a numeric IP address, or a fully qualified domain

name, of the form something.someplace.net, which will be used to contact the

server. The installation software will mount the NFS volume found at the

declared IP address.

Once mounted, the location of the  top level  of the distribution is re 

quired. dselect is expecting the path to a directory called stable that contains

main/binary i386. Some archives don't support this path structure. Under

these circumstances it becomes necessary to specify each binary distribution