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indicates the percentage of text viewed, and the key that will change the

current text position in the window.

This is a common pattern in dselect. The upper portion of the window i s

where the activities occur and the bottom half provides additional information

to help make the choice.

cdrom:

What you need to know:

  Device driver name for CD ROM if not yet mounted

  Is the CD ROM image a  standard  distribution?

  Mount point if already mounted.

The cdrom method will find an already mounted CD ROM or will ask for the

device driver that will mount the correct drive. All such drivers are found

in /dev and thus, the specification of an sbpcd driver would be /dev/sbpcd0

for the SoundBlaster Pro driver, /dev/scd0 for the first SCSI CD ROM, and

possibly /dev/hdb1 for an IDE ATAPI type drive that is the slave on the first

IDE controler.

Once the drive is mounted the next problem is finding the distribution on the

CD ROM. The standard archives, as well as the CDs, use the path debian/dists

for all the releases held in the archives. The release archives, called stable are

pointed to by a symbolic link in this directory, so the path that dselect is

looking for is: debian/dists/stable. dselect will append /main/binary i386 to

obtain the complete path. If you have a nonstandard CD, look for the directory

main/binary i386 and supply the path which leads to it.