Re: re- cheapbytes cd

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Kenneth Scharf wrote:

> >A friend had a problem installing base2_1.tgz from my >Cheapbytes
> >4 CD set (I only upgraded).
> 
> How did you upgrade using the CD?  I downloaded the latest apt (0.3x)
> from ftp.debian.org as the cd came with 0.1.8. 

same here.
>                                                 I noticed a program
> called apt-cdrom which is supposed to set up /etc/apt/sources.list for
> you. (the man pages say you SHOULD not edit sources.list by hand...) 

I have a CDROM and a CD-Writer at work, so I setup apt for both
binaries to be visible at the same time.  That worked.

At home, I used the apt-cdrom thing and that worked too.

> Anyway I tried to run apt-get update -f and 
> apt-get upgrade and got lots of errors about the wrong cd being mounted
> (It was looking for binary #2 but would only let me mount binary #1). 
> I backed up my /var/lib/dpkg directory before I started so I can
> restore the database (nothing got upgraded yet) and try again with the
> apt that was on the CD?

Peter