On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 12:27:58AM -0400, Gregory Baker wrote: > I just finished installing Sarge and need some help with a really simple > problem. Then you should direct your question to the debian-user mailing list, not to debian-testing. > I have a PC configured to dual-boot between Win XP and Debian. I created a > partition and loaded XP first and then I did the basic netinstall. I let the > installer use the remaining space on the HD to create the working and swap > partitions. I cannot get apt-get to talk my office's proxy server, so I > downloaded the sixteen .iso CD images for the testing distribution using the > XP partition on the box. > I need to mount the XP partition in Linux so that I can point apt-get to it > and load the packages from the .iso s. Could someone suggest a mount syntax > that should allow me to do this? The XP partition should be 0 since it was > created first, the fs is ntfs and there's no critical data on either > partition yet. > I'd also like to know - since I'm doing this for testing purposes - is there > any harm in simply installing all the available packages? I have about 100 > GB to play with on the Linux partition. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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