On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 11:06:56AM +0100, sb...@secure.mailbox.org wrote: > Hi list members, > > I have successfully installed stretch from a usb stick onto which I had > downloaded the latest amd64 weekly-build DVD-1.iso and other necessary > init files. > Well, after the install process had finished, I rebooted from harddisk and > everything worked, but when I now try to use apt to install more files > FROM THE DVD.iso on the stick (not over the network), it tells me to > insert the cdrom:[DEBIAN_TESTING...DVD-iso-1], even when the USB > stick is already inserted in the slot - no, apt wants a cdrom (and that's > what the source.list indicates: cdrom. > It's an iso-hybrid as you know, but I can't find a way to tell apt to use > this very same USB stick (with the named ISO) from which the installing > process had been carried out. > When I put different forms of identifying the USB stick into the > sources.list apt says something like "there is no driver for that device > installed" or "there is no release file" (when I put > file://var/lib/apt/lists directory) and does not proceed. But the
Have a look at 'man sources.list' e.g. in examples it has deb file:/home/jason/debian unstable main contrib non-free note it's not 'file://' Please inform the list of your progress, I too would like to know the solution for future reference. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
