> If the path to the Packages.gz file on your mounted cdrom is
> /cdrom/debian/Packages.gz, then you could probably just add this
> (temporarily) to your sources.list file:
>
> file:/cdrom/debian/ main contrib non-free
>
> you may not have all of the sections abive (contrib and non-free are
> probably missing), just find the directory where "main/" is located; if
> contrib and/or non-free are there, then leave the line like it is above.
>
> Constructing a sources.list file can be difficult, because the way that
> apt-get resolves the actual path to the ".deb" files is kind of hard to
> follow. As a matter of fact, I may have the above line all wrong, so
> please, someone make sure I've got it right... Another line that _might_
> work is:
>
> file:/cdrom/debian stable main contrib non-free
second one should be the right one (you might have to use potato instead of
stable though, not sure about that)
