Re: putting cdrom into sources.list

[Gustaf Erikson <gustafe@home.se>]

Alex Hunsley <lard@miezekatze.com> writes:

> Originally my surces.list file (for apt) pointed to my cd rom drive, which had
> potato cd #1 in it. Since then I've changed sources.list to get stuff from the
> net, but how do I add the cd drive back to sources.list?
> I suspect it's something like file:/cdrom but I've tried that and no luck...
> (yes, I know now I could use dpkg -i directly, but I want to be able to use
> apt-cache search and apt-get for easyness.)
> 
> thanks
> alex
> 

man sources.list is your friend:


       cdrom  The cdrom scheme allows APT to use  a  local  CDROM
              drive  with  media  swapping.  Use the apt-cdrom(8)
              program to create cdrom entires in the source list.


/g.

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