On 19 Feb 2001, at 17:37, Steve McIntyre wrote: > What you're seeing will be caused by the Packages files overwriting > each other. Cat together the Packages files from each CD instead of > just copying... Thanks, it worked great. Of course I had to gzip the resultant combined Packages files to replace the ones off the CD, since apt-get looks for the .gz extensions when fetching from a http: URL configured in /etc/apt/sources.list.