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:
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> > 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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