Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-23 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Actually I was able to figure out enough of deselect to be able to install debian 1.3.1 (after two attempts). To be fair, my first attempt at using deselect was on a low memory (8mb) slow (386) machine with a monochrome monitor (vga). When I tried using apt under dselect for 2.0 I couldn't get th

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Oct 1998q, John Forest wrote: > I might be totally wrong, flame me if I am, but... > > I upgraded my kernel to 2.0.34 and somehow I was able to 'look' at joilet type > cd's. Before the upgrade the links did not show. This presented me with > similar problems. > So, perhaps you could upgrad

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-23 Thread John Forest
Anthony Campbell wrote: > I thought I'd got apt-get to read my local cdrom but it seems I was wrong. It > will update the packages but won't install anything. I have a Cheapbytes > cdrom. > > The entry in my sources.list is as follows: > > > deb file:/cdrom/debian main/binary-i386/

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-22 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:32:03PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of see the sig below > me, but search for "Our Man Pann". He shows the /etc/apt/sources.list > file as > > deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main > > But I don't thi

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of me, but search for "Our Man Pann". He shows the /etc/apt/sources.list file as deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main But I don't think he was using the cheap bytes cd. His page WAS for hamm (2.0). He was NOT using apt under dsel

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-22 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Anthony Campbell wrote: > Yes, I tried that and just about every other combination I can think of. The > only one that gets the Packages list is the original version (which was > suggested by someone here) but it won't actually install anything. I can > however install from t

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Oct 1998q, Mitch Blevins wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I thought I'd got apt-get to read my local cdrom but it seems I was wrong. > > It > > will update the packages but won't install anything. I have a Cheapbytes > > cdrom. > > > > The entry in my sources.list is as follows: > > >

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-22 Thread Mitch Blevins
Anthony Campbell wrote: > I thought I'd got apt-get to read my local cdrom but it seems I was wrong. It > will update the packages but won't install anything. I have a Cheapbytes > cdrom. > > The entry in my sources.list is as follows: > > > deb file:/cdrom/debian main/binary-i386/

apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
I thought I'd got apt-get to read my local cdrom but it seems I was wrong. It will update the packages but won't install anything. I have a Cheapbytes cdrom. The entry in my sources.list is as follows: deb file:/cdrom/debian main/binary-i386/ The Packages file is read correctly