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i'm a linux newbie and playing around with
debian to learn. i've installed and reinstalled it many times but the
routine of swapping cds (from the 3 cd-set) is bothersome.
so i partitioned my HD increasing it by 3
partitions with the idea of copying the 3 cds into the 3 partitions, and
subsequently trying to install from the HD direct. (partitions are fat32;
but i had no problems reading the boot floppies info from hda6)
the installation process asks for sources from
CDROM, filesystem, ftp, http,.. I picked filesystem assuming i could refer
to my local partitions.
i had to modify the /etc/apt/sources.list to
read from the 3 new partitions (hda6, hda7, hda8) but i'm stumped. i get error
messages. typically i used a line such as:
deb
file:/hda6/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages
(the installer prompted this asking if i wanted to
edit the file manually, and then displayed ae to edit the file)
i've checked man apt.get, apt.conf, sources.list
but they don't provide help i need (at least to my little
understanding).
hope someone can help me.
thanks in advance
ram
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