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Re: using cd roms with dselect



On Saturday January 10 at 03:52pm
Jim Higson <jh@333.org> wrote:

> While I wait for my new router, I'm using the official binary CD-rom 
> images, I installed with woody cds 1 and 2, but now have the whole
> set. I have not burned them, they are on the local drive and mounted.
> 
> In dselect menu I choose Access and then cdrom, dselect lists the 7 
> mounted isos correctly, and when I choose one of them I am asked for
> the directory with the packages.
> 
> If I accept the default, debian/dists/stable/, I get "does not contain
> any *.deb packages. Hmpf", which is true - browsing through the cd I
> see the .deb files are all in pool/
> 
> If I enter debian/pool/ I get the message /debian/pool/binary-i386
> does not exist, which I suppose is also correct.
> 
> How do I get dselect to see the packages in the cdrom images?

Try adding them to you're sources.list with apt-cdrom.
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