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Re: apt-get from HDD



Sorry, typo.  I meant a mounted HDD not CD

On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Philip Charles wrote:
> 
> > I am having problems with apt-get accessing the archive on my CD.  It is
> > not picking up the non-US and local directories.              ^^
> > 
> > The path to the Packages file is:-
> > /b5/debian/mirror/debian/dists/potato/non-US/main/binary-i386/Packages
> > However, it is omiting main from the path    ^^^^
> > This has a rather "slink" feel to it.
> > 
> > It is also ignoring the local file system.  Burn CDs, scan them and
> > everything works well.
> 
> I can't really make out what/where your problem is; however on my potato
> install from non-US test-cycle-2 CDs apt-cdrom just adds
> 
>   deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 _Potato_ - test-cycle-2 i386 Binary-1 (20000611)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
> 
> to /etc/apt/sources.list, which is quite right. (Apart from the `unstable'...
> while `unstable', `stable' and `frozen' all are symlinks to `potato'. Hmm.)
> 
> 
> Regards,
>   Anne Bezemer
> 
> 
> 

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