On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:38 -0400, Jim Foltz wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:46:58PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > I have succeeded in getting apt to connect to a distant ftp site but I've
> > been unable to get it to access my cdrom drive, which currently has the
> > Cheapbytes version of debian. I've tried every combination of deb
> > file:/cdrom
> > I can think of but I keep getting "malformed line in sources.list".
> >
> > Is it possible to do this? If so, how?
>
> First, mount the cd
> Then add the line:
> deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main
> (assuming you have the cd mounted under /cdrom and it is the stable/main cd)
>
As a follow-up question to this: Is it possible to make apt aware of
multiple CDs? I bought one of the cheapbytes sets, and thus have 3 CDs
with different parts on them (main, contrib and non-free). Setting up the
main CD so apt is aware of it is no problem, but the other two? Seems daft
to have to use an ftp mirror when I have exactly the same stuff locally...
Cheers
Dave
