On Sun 20 Apr 2014 at 17:40:53 -0400, Theodore Alcapotaxis wrote:
> I have tried the following steps on the advice of some of my colleagues:
>
> 1. remove/delete all the entries in /etc/apt/sources.list and reboot the
> computer
Rebooting isn't necessary.
> 2. dmesg shows that the USB thumb drive is mounted on /dev/sdb1
No. dmesg shows a device sdb was detected.
> 3. sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb0
An bad move! Please read about the -d option in 'man apt-cdrom' and alter
your /etc/fstab.
> 4. sudo apt-cdrom -m -d /media/usb0 add
If /dev/sdb1 has a mount point /media/usb0 in fstab:
sudo apt-cdrom -d /media/usb0 add
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