On 06/01/2019 07:08 PM, mick crane wrote:
On 2019-05-31 13:20, Richard Owlett wrote:With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did: dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M I edited sources.list to read deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes When running Synaptic's Edit->Reload Package Information I receive an error message:The repository 'file:/home/richard/dvd.iso stretch Release' does not have a Release file.What is the problem? TIAI'm going to get in trouble for this but if I could offer advice.You seem more interested in the actual install process than getting it running and doing something with it.
Close ;} Debian can do every real-world task I've tried.
Fair enough, it is like a hobby,When came across this stuff I was the same, installed whatever distribution on awkward hardware just to see.But I had no idea what I was doing.
My 'hobby' might be described as "Why does Debian do things the way it does?"
There is so much to know and if you have a memory like a sieve like me it is really hard to grasp how it all works. These days I accept the default installation and that which is needed to do bits of image manipulation and I really like having the email and webserver software and that's it.cheers mick