On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There have been several posts on debian-user asking how to use apt-get > to upgrade from hamm to slink, now that the binaries no longer fit on > a single CD.
> I've seen two answers so far on the list---both of them containing > very helpful suggestions, but very different from one another, and > both sort of telegraphic. Unfortunately the new APT code to handle multiple CDROMS was not finished in time for the slink release. This means we released slink with the multiple CD dselect method and an APT that could only do a single, always mounted CD. There are a few solutions to this, you can just mount the CD and put it in apt's sources.list as a file: uri then do an install, swap disks, run update and do another install. This is primitive and a bit annoying but it will work for an upgrade. The next alternative is to use dpkg-multicd, this has the drawback of not doing much installation ordering. The final solution is to install APT 0.3 from potato and use it's built in CD handling through apt-cdrom. I have made a special source specifically for this, deb http://www.debian.org/~jgg apt/ Which will contain the latest glibc 2.0 linked APT v3. Install whatever APT you can, add the above to your sources.list (and maybe a temporary file: uri for the first cdrom) and then do 'apt-get install apt'. Next insert the first disc, run 'apt-cdrom add', then insert the second disc and run 'apt-cdrom add' then run 'apt-get dist-upgrade -u' twice (or is it 3 times?) Eventually I will get proper partial-unpacking and disc swapping done up so it can all be done in a single command, but it is a tricky issue unfortunately - apt errs to the safe side right now. Jason
