Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom
Actually I was able to figure out enough of deselect to be able to
install debian 1.3.1 (after two attempts). To be fair, my first
attempt at using deselect was on a low memory (8mb) slow (386) machine
with a monochrome monitor (vga). When I tried using apt under dselect
for 2.0 I couldn't get the paths right either (using the cheap bytes
cd). I think by using simlinks I could fool apt into beliving the
path is correct but havn't tried it yet. I have NOT tired to use
deselect to install packages from contrib or non-free since I am
afread that by saying 'NONE' to the base path (which I have to if I
use the cd) and update the available packages for contrib or nonfree
it will 86 the database for base....
Anyway after trying to install redhat at work and ending up with a
non-working ftp server, I am tring debian here. It's the best linux
distribution IMHO.
---Pann McCuaig <pann@agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:32:03PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
>
> > Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of
>
> see the sig below
>
> > me, but search for "Our Man Pann". He shows the
/etc/apt/sources.list
> > file as
> >
> > deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main
> >
> > But I don't think he was using the cheap bytes cd. His page WAS for
> > hamm (2.0).
>
> No, but I was using a CD from Johnie Ingram (johnie@netgod.net) that
I'm
> sure was burned from the official CD image.
>
> > He was NOT using apt under dselect. He was using
> >
> > apt-get install packagenames
> >
> > to install individual packages. I haven't tried this myself (yet).
> > Oh yeah you have to mount the cdrom first, besure to set the user
flag
> > in /etc/fstab.
>
> Once apt is installed you can use the apt method in dselect, but I
> recommend newbies avoid dselect like the plague. YMMV
>
> Luck,
> Pann
> --
> What's All the Buzz About Linux?
>
> http://www.rdrop.com/users/pann/
>
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