Re: why 4 partitions?

[Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es>]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:58:32PM +0800, hong jun wrote:
> thank you very much.
> again, i have this question, you say:
> "Apt-cdrom does not work.  What I reccommend is that the contents of the
> cdrom's be copied into four separate partitions and the
> /etc/apt/sources.list be edited to point to these partitions, e.g.
> deb file:/discs/A/debian sid main contrib local
> deb file:/discs/B/debian sid main contrib local

I suggest something like:

deb file:///cdrom/debian sid main

then you'd just mount/umount the cdrom manualy and run apt.

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Robert Millan