> Why not? > Are you saying you never actually burned the CD image? > > (the Packages file is not in the expected place, etc -- please > > correct me if I'm wrong about this!). > > FWIW; the protocol is "file:///" _not_ "file://" Well I burned the DVD but I dont want to use it :P I had another look at file:/ and got it working (not sure what I had wrong yesterday but this time it picked it up right away): deb file:/mnt/deb_iso1/ stable main contrib