Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:32:03PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of
see the sig below
> me, but search for "Our Man Pann". He shows the /etc/apt/sources.list
> file as
>
> deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main
>
> But I don't think he was using the cheap bytes cd. His page WAS for
> hamm (2.0).
No, but I was using a CD from Johnie Ingram (johnie@netgod.net) that I'm
sure was burned from the official CD image.
> He was NOT using apt under dselect. He was using
>
> apt-get install packagenames
>
> to install individual packages. I haven't tried this myself (yet).
> Oh yeah you have to mount the cdrom first, besure to set the user flag
> in /etc/fstab.
Once apt is installed you can use the apt method in dselect, but I
recommend newbies avoid dselect like the plague. YMMV
Luck,
Pann
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