debian installation (dselect and dpkg) woes

[Don Erickson]

In article <3CC9B934.1060800 at innovision.com> you write:
>I've been able to set up my debian installation with the basic 
>configuration information, but using dselect is a bear.  Problem now is 
>setting up my sources.list file to read from the hard drive.  Assuming I 
>downloaded the CD to:
>
>/dos1/linux/debian/dists/stable/<main|contrib|non-free>

You downloaded the CD?  I've never installed from a directory, what error
message do you get?  

>what should my source be?  I've used:
>
>deb file:/dos1/linux/debian stable main contrib non-free

That looks right.

>with no success.  I'd hate to install by HTTP or FTP after all that 
>downloading to get the packages.

This is where debian really shines, you only have to download the packages
that you want.  Sorry that this isn't much help.

-- 
Regards,

-Don