John Stevenson wrote:
I'm trying to use a sid iso image as a apt source. I've
successfully mounted it and added a file entry to sources.list as:
deb file:/mnt/iso/debian sid main
The correct way to add an Official Debian CD to the apt
sources.list file is to use the command:
apt-cdrom add
You should run this command as root. This will prompt you to put
in a cdrom, do not mount the cdrom yourself as the apt-cdrom does
all this for you. You should end up with a sources.list entry that
starts with:
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux .....
You may find that some or all of the existing entries are commented
out by apt-cdrom. If you are concerned, you should make a backup
copy of sources.list.
Thanks, though pretty much the same thing happens after a apt-cdrom
add:
Scanning Disc for index files.. Found 0 package indexes and 0 source
indexes.
E: Unable to locate any package files, perhaps this is not a Debian
Disc
I guess the basic problem is just that the Packages file is in a
'binary-alpha' directory instead of in a 'binary-i386' directory as
is usual.
But everyone who downloads a Sid image must have this problem but I
don't see anyone mentioning this, so what's going on here?