On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:13:26 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com> wrote: > Chris Metzler wrote: >> >> Well, it doesn't make much sense to me to put up a page with >> installation instructions ("You only need Disk #1 to install the base >> system...") for a release that doesn't exist and isn't imminent. >> Presumably, when there actually is a release, this fact will be >> publicized -- like it was for Woody, which was 7 CDs but didn't >> require them all either. > > > I hear everybody saying "But you don't need the 13 cd's". OK, I don't > need the 13 CD's. But I have x CD's and have them registered with > apt-cdrom. Now I want a package Y. Synaptic or whatever won't show it > because it isn't on the CD's. > Where do I now find "Dummy, the package is on CD #z which you did not > download!"? Take a look at the Installation manual for Woody, the version of Debian you've said you're running. In particular, look at Section 8.11. In the installation of Sarge, there'll be a similar step. That solves the problem. -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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