On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:38:27AM -0400, Jim Foltz wrote: > On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:46:58PM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I have succeeded in getting apt to connect to a distant ftp site but I've > > been unable to get it to access my cdrom drive, which currently has the > > Cheapbytes version of debian. I've tried every combination of deb > > file:/cdrom > > I can think of but I keep getting "malformed line in sources.list". > > > > Is it possible to do this? If so, how? > > First, mount the cd > Then add the line: > deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main > (assuming you have the cd mounted under /cdrom and it is the stable/main cd) >
No, I already tried this and it doesn't work. It gives "unable to state /cdrom/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz" The problem seems to be that the file structure on my cdrom is /debian/main/binary-i386/. Stable is a link to /debian/main. This doesn't seem to be what apt-get wants, and I don't seem to be able to tell it what to do. > > Anyway, add the line to /etc/apt/sources.list, and comment out all others. > Third, you can use dselect's apt method as usual, or use apt-get from the > command line. > I'm not sure how to do this; I'll have to research it. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.achc.demon.co.uk