On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 00:48:33 -0700 (MST), you wrote: >The final solution is to install APT 0.3 from potato and use it's built in >CD handling through apt-cdrom.
Good work. I like it. >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'. www.debian.org is quite slow today, so I pulled apt_0.3.3.deb from the local potato mirror and installed it using dpkg. File sizes match, so I think it is the same deb. Right? >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?) I have my cdrom not on /cdrom, but on /mnt/cdrom. /etc/fstab shows this. However, apt-cdrom tries to mount /cdrom and fails. apt-cdrom does have a switch --cdrom which I used to point it towards /mnt/cdrom. This worked. However, after pulling in the disks, I found that apt-get tries to load the packages from /cdrom instead of /mnt/cdrom. --cdrom is not supported by apt-get and I believe that apt-cdrom should have recorded the nonstandard mount point in sources.list. Do I miss something here? Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29
