Re: could not resolve deb.debian.org after installing via debian live image

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2020-02-03, Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tamar Nirenberg's apt-get wrote:
>> > Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get
>> >  update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
>
> Curt wrote:
>> Is that what he did (use apt-cdrom) to add the local repository?
>
> Dunno. But that was a red herring caused by the "deb cdrom:" line.
> Needed is "deb file:" because the (pseudo-)repository is accessible as
> directory in a mounted filesystem on USB stick.
>

I thought he installed his OS from the
debian-live-10.2.0-amd64-gnome.iso sitting on a usb stick.

I'm uncertain why, for example
 
 apt-cdrom -d /usbmountpoint/ add

would not be operational here (if the appropriate /etc/fstab entry
exists).

That is, if live cd repositories work the same way as regular old cd
repositories.

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