Re: apt-cdrom on iso mount

["Mumia W." <mumia.w.18.spam+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 07/20/2006 05:09 AM, Nick Wright wrote:
> I'm having some trouble getting apt to use a mounted .iso image on my
> hdd.
> [...]
> I now have this in my /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
> [...]
> Media Change: Please insert the disc labeled
>  'Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20060419)'
> in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter
>
> And there's the problem -- why does it want to use /cdrom/ when I told
> it the cdrom mount point was /mnt/deb_iso1?
> [...]

Use file:// rather than cdrom: for archives on disk. When 
apt-get sees a cdrom: source, it naturally thinks that it's a 
real CD-ROM device.