Re: debian installation help

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@vianet.ca>]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:25:09PM +0530, Srinivasa Ramanujam wrote:
> hi,
> 
> the following are the file names which i downloaded from the debian website.
> debian-40r5-amd64-DVD-1.iso
> debian-40r5-amd64-DVD-2.iso
> debian-40r5-amd64-DVD-3.iso
> debian-update-4.0r5-amd64-DVD-1.iso

Did you read the installation manual?  You only really need the
netinst.iso CD file.  The DVDs are for people who are installing on a
computer that will not have internet access.

At the command line in your running system, for each DVD:

	put it into the drive
	run (as root) 
		# apt-cdrom add

This will tell apt about the contents of the CD.  The man page says that
it cannot be done by hand.

Now you can run aptitude and the packages on the DVDs will appear.
Assuming that you also have the on-line repositories in your
/etc/apt/sources.list, the only difference will be that apt will use the
package from the DVD rather than the internet, if they are otherwise the
same.

Doug.