Re: Installation ~ configuring apt-get sources.list for cdrom
Jocke,
Thanks for the reply...
> in /etc/apt/sources.list add the following lines
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
> deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US
I forgot to mention that I am not yet connected with ppp, so i
presume this won't work yet.
Does that leave me then with dselect as the only option to
procede? dselect works but I have not managed to find the way to
tell it how to get the man-db or emacs etc. Can that be done
from there?
Walter
> This will enable you to use apt-get
> But you can use "dselect" to install things from your 2.1 cd
> Just choose "multi_cd" under [A]ccess and you are on your way.
>
> you can also get the .deb "apt-cdrom" from the unstable version
> and add the cd to sources.list by running apt-cdrom for each cd
> in your cd-set.
> To get it you will have to add
>
> deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> deb ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main contrib non-free
>
> to your sources.list file
>
> Hope this will help you get going.
>
> /Joakim
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