On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 05:24:12PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've googled. I've found scripts that don't Work For Me. I've found the APT > howto and not understood the little information I could see there. > > I've got seven CDs burned myself from the ISO images I downloaded. > > Unpacking them is no problem, I can mount -o loop,ro with the best of them, and from >there I can > > tar cC /mnt/cdrom | tar xpC /var/ftp/pub/linux/debian > > and recursively chmod and rm TRANS.TBLs. > > > I'm new to Debian, not new to Linux. > > What I can't figure is precisely how to create those Packages files. What command(s) >do I run, and importantly, in what directories?
There's a couple of ways to achieve this... 1. Copy the contents of each CD to a separate subdirectory, and add seven entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list. An entry might look something like this: deb file:/home/debcds/disk1 woody contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main 2. Make an empty directory, copy CDs into it. Install apt-utils if not already installed, and run apt-ftparchive to generate Packages.gz and Sources.gz. Add one entry to /etc/apt/sources/list I've done option 1, and it works fine. Option 2 was an alternative suggested when I asked the same question of the list - Chris __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]