Nick Wright wrote: > > Use file:// rather than cdrom: for archives on disk. When > > apt-get sees a cdrom: source, it naturally thinks that it's a > > real CD-ROM device. > > That makes some degree of sense -- however, for one thing the mounted > iso image cannot be used directly as a file:// source as far as I can > tell
Why not? Are you saying you never actually burned the CD image? (the Packages file is not in the expected place, etc -- please > correct me if I'm wrong about this!). FWIW; the protocol is "file:///" _not_ "file://" Regards __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
