Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:55:48PM +0100, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: You can try to put APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM true; into a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/. This gets rid of the warning message for CDrom sources, but I am not sure if it will work for your

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 17:02:18 -0700, Michael Paulsen wrote: On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen wrote: Hi ya, Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-24 Thread Michael Paulsen
Florian, You assume correctly I inserted; deb file:/mnt/maddog2/debian etch contrib main non-free into /etc/apt/sources.list. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, I'll get your suggestion a try and see what happens. Regards, Michael On 3/24/08, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-23 Thread Michael Paulsen
On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ya, Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead of all the CD's when

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-22 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:15:53AM -0700, Michael Paulsen wrote: On 3/21/08, Tom Goulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/21/08, Michael Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tried merging a the CD's yet. I'm cleaning of a HD partition in preparation for my first attempt. Mean while I

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-21 Thread CaT
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 02:02:10PM -0700, Michael Paulsen wrote: On 3/20/08, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Paulsen wrote: Hi ya, Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's to

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-21 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 04:48:07PM -0500, Tom Goulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's to my

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-21 Thread Michael Paulsen
On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi ya, Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead of all the CD's when

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/21/08, Michael Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tried merging a the CD's yet. I'm cleaning of a HD partition in preparation for my first attempt. Mean while I found a program APT-MOVE, anyone know about this? I haven't looked up any man pages on it yet, but I'm wondering if

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-21 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/21/08, Tom Goulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/21/08, Michael Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tried merging a the CD's yet. I'm cleaning of a HD partition in preparation for my first attempt. Mean while I found a program APT-MOVE, anyone know about this? I haven't looked

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-21 Thread Michael Paulsen
On 3/21/08, Tom Goulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/21/08, Michael Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't tried merging a the CD's yet. I'm cleaning of a HD partition in preparation for my first attempt. Mean while I found a program APT-MOVE, anyone know about this? I haven't looked

Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-20 Thread Michael Paulsen
Hi ya, Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead of all the CD's when installing new packages? What would the be the easiest way

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-20 Thread Jeff D
Michael Paulsen wrote: Hi ya, Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead of all the CD's when installing new packages? What would

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-20 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/20/08 15:30, Jeff D wrote: Michael Paulsen wrote: Hi ya, Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-20 Thread Michael Paulsen
On 3/20/08, Jeff D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Paulsen wrote: Hi ya, Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead of

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-20 Thread Tom Goulet
On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead of all the CD's when installing

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

2008-03-20 Thread Michael Paulsen
On 3/20/08, Tom Goulet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the