Re: multimedia CD?
On Mon November 13 2006 09:07, Mark Grieveson wrote:
> Hello. I've installed Debian Etch on an old laptop using CDs -- it does
> not have high speed internet access. I then, on a separate computer,
> downloaded Christian Marillat's multimedia files, maintaining the
> directory structure, and then burned these to CD. I attempted to add
> this to my sources.list, on the laptop, via "apt-cdrom add", which
> initially seemed successful, but then was rejected due to the CD lacking
> the public access key. So, is there a way I can add the access key to
> the CD? Or, and even better, is there a place where I can just download
> an iso image of the multimedia files?
What I do in a case like yours is simply copy the files
to /var/cache/apt/archives so they don't need to be downloaded again. Your
idea is a good one though I don't know if it has been done by anyone.
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