On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 10:03:07AM -0400, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > I've tried to find an answer to this by reading and searching the > net, but no luck. > > I created the "sources.list" file with network entries followed by CD > entries. Ideally, I'd like this setup to access one of the specified > network mirrors if I'm connected to the Internet. On the other hand, > if I'm not connected by either PPP or Ethernet, I'd like to use the > installation CDs. > > Is this possible? > > As a much less desirable "work around", I tried having two secondary > files -- one with the network entries and another with the CD ones -- > one of which is symbolic linked to "sources.list". The problem with > that is when I use the network info, all the data from the seven CDs > "goes away" (requiring a rescan of all CDs next time I use *them*). > > Thanks for any ideas! There's no easy solution to this that I know of. If you have the diskspace, you could just copy the contents of this CDs to your hard disk, and then get packages from there, but that would require a few GB of space. Another solution might be to duplicate /var/lib/apt/ (and /etc/apt/sources.list) to /var/lib/apt.cdrom/ and /var/lib/apt.net/ and then symlink /var/lib/apt/ (and your sources.list) to which ever is appropriate at the time. I've never tried this, so test it carefully before you rely on it, and KEEP BACKUPS. -- Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org> | mlspam@ertius.org | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: fissionable NWO Pope SEAL Team 6 Sundevil
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