In message <371F9CF3.E3D6B1F1 at tinet.ie>, Firestart writes:
>thanks to liam for debian,
>but i cant install the damn thing :(
>i was wondering has anyone ever came accross this before: when i get to
>the installing deb's section on the second CD before dselect where i am
>expected to choose from literally 1000's of packedge's,so i pick
>standard workstation to afoid the nasty conflict's i get when manually
>choosing and it skip ahead to the install section,and it seems to go
>fine but then says something like 'checking for old tex packedges" and
>then it all goes mental and i get flooded with "operating system read
>only" messages,wtf! i cant even log in cos its read only.
><AOL>
>heeeeelllp meeee
></AOL>
Hmm... Just on the off chance that the second cd didn't copy perfectly,
have you tried doing a minimal install, and leave out the tex stuff, and
then add it in later (I can make up another copy if that one is damaged anyway)
Regards
L.
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