Florian,
You assume correctly I inserted;
deb file:/mnt/maddog2/debian etch contrib main non-free
into /etc/apt/sources.list.
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, I'll get your
suggestion a try and see what happens.
Regards,
Michael
On 3/24/08, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 17:02:18 -0700, Michael Paulsen wrote:
> > On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen wrote:
> > > Hi ya,
> > >
> > > Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every
> > > time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's
> > > to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead
> > > of all the CD's when installing new packages? What would the be the
> > > easiest way to do this?
> > >
> > > Thank You,
> > > mtp5150
> > >
> >
> > STATUS: Completed, Solved
> >
> > Hi Ya,
> >
> > First off let me thank all of you for providing input, advice, and
> > support. I have successfully merged all of the CDs on to a hard drive
> > partition and it is working with one minor glitch. I keep getting the
> > following error, "warning the following packages cannot be
> > authenticated". APT-GET INSTALL does allow me to continue, so
> > everything is working. I just don't know how to resolve this error
> > message, yet.
>
> You can try to put
>
> APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
>
> into a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/. This gets rid of the warning
> message for CDrom sources, but I am not sure if it will work for your
> configuration: I assume that you use a "file" declaration in your
> sources.list to refer to your merged archive on the hard disk. If this
> is not covered by the TrustCDROM directive (I never tried) then you may
> have to go through the procedure described in the ARCHIVE CONFIGURATION
> section of "man apt-secure".
>
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