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Re: Aptitude asks for installation CD



On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 11:31:31AM -0600, Jim MacKenzie wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Desmond Rivet" <desmond.rivet@videotron.ca>
> To: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 11:07 AM
> Subject: Aptitude asks for installation CD
> 
> 
> >The only glitch I have (so far) is that aptitude keeps asking me for the
> >Network installation CD every time I want to install a piece of software.
> >Things work fine once I put the CD in the drive. I have installed Debian 
> >3.1
> >on another (Intel) machine and this doesn't happen.
> 
> I still have sarge on my UltraSparc 1/170E, but it seems to me that the 
> solution is to comment out or delete the lines referring to your CD-ROM in 
> /etc/apt/sources.list .

Thanks everyone - commenting out the cdrom line in /etc/apt/sources.list did
the trick.

-- 
Desmond Rivet

"That which is overdesigned, too highly specific, anticipates outcome; the 
anticipation of outcome guarantees, if not failure, the absence of grace."
                               - William Gibson, "All Tomorrow's Parties" 



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