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Re: aptitude and my DVD drive



On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:14:20 -0600
Adam Fabian <awfabian@gmail.com> wrote:

> I added a few DVDs to my sources.list using apt-cdrom.  I tried adding
> some new packages with aptitude, and it wanted me to "insert the
> following disc into drive "/cdrom/".  I inserted the appropriate disc
> into the drive I had used apt-cdrom with, but aptitude didn't find
> it.  As it happens, on that IDE channel, the DVD drive is the slave
> device.  I use ide-scsi, so the actual device name is /dev/scd1.  I
> have left the mount point set appropriately in fstab, as I had to do
> to use apt-cdrom to begin with.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can get aptitude to look in the correct drive?
> If it matters, it looks like I'm using udev.
> 
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AFAIK apt-cdrom always uses /cdrom which should be a link to your first optical drive. You can easily change this to point to whatever device you want to use, even a loop mounted .iso ;)

Andrei
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