Re: Difficulties while installing additional packages from .iso (USB stick) after successful stretch install
On 02/07/2016 02:15 PM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 11:06:56AM +0100, sbeck@secure.mailbox.org wrote:
>> Hi list members,
>>
>> I have successfully installed stretch from a usb stick onto which I had
>> downloaded the latest amd64 weekly-build DVD-1.iso and other necessary
>> init files.
>> Well, after the install process had finished, I rebooted from harddisk and
>> everything worked, but when I now try to use apt to install more files
>> FROM THE DVD.iso on the stick (not over the network), it tells me to
>> insert the cdrom:[DEBIAN_TESTING...DVD-iso-1], even when the USB
>> stick is already inserted in the slot - no, apt wants a cdrom (and that's
>> what the source.list indicates: cdrom.
>> It's an iso-hybrid as you know, but I can't find a way to tell apt to use
>> this very same USB stick (with the named ISO) from which the installing
>> process had been carried out.
>> When I put different forms of identifying the USB stick into the
>> sources.list apt says something like "there is no driver for that device
>> installed" or "there is no release file" (when I put
>> file://var/lib/apt/lists directory) and does not proceed. But the
> Have a look at 'man sources.list'
>
> e.g. in examples it has deb file:/home/jason/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> note it's not 'file://'
>
> Please inform the list of your progress, I too would like to know the
> solution for future reference.
>
There is a tool called apt-cdrom, but it didn't work the way I wanted.
Here is the thread explaining the procedure of adding a local iso image
to sources.list:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/05/msg00562.html
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