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packages to be installed into one directory and build a Packages file for them.

See Building Packages Files on page ?? for details.

ftp:

What you need to know:

  The domain name for the FTP site that is to be used.

  The path structure of the archive on that site.

Selecting this method will result in a prompt for the domain name of the ftp

site which will be used for the installation. As with the other access methods,

the path to the archive must be known and supplied for the proper continuation

of the installation.

Notes

Each of the above access methods will at some point ask for the location of

the  top level  of the distribution. If the archive is in the  standard  form,

pointing to this  top level  will be all that is necessary. dselect will find a

Packages file for the binary i386 portion of the distribution as well as contrib,

and non free. The path to the local distribution will be asked for separately,

as well as any of the above that were not found in the  top level .

If the distribution is in a nonstandard layout, dselect will notice this and

complain that what was identified was not, in fact, the  top level . In this

case simply answer  none  and each section will be prompted for separately.