Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-23 Thread John Forest
Anthony Campbell wrote: I thought I'd got apt-get to read my local cdrom but it seems I was wrong. It will update the packages but won't install anything. I have a Cheapbytes cdrom. The entry in my sources.list is as follows: deb file:/cdrom/debian main/binary-i386/ The

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Oct 1998q, John Forest wrote: I might be totally wrong, flame me if I am, but... I upgraded my kernel to 2.0.34 and somehow I was able to 'look' at joilet type cd's. Before the upgrade the links did not show. This presented me with similar problems. So, perhaps you could upgrade to

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-23 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Actually I was able to figure out enough of deselect to be able to install debian 1.3.1 (after two attempts). To be fair, my first attempt at using deselect was on a low memory (8mb) slow (386) machine with a monochrome monitor (vga). When I tried using apt under dselect for 2.0 I couldn't get

apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
I thought I'd got apt-get to read my local cdrom but it seems I was wrong. It will update the packages but won't install anything. I have a Cheapbytes cdrom. The entry in my sources.list is as follows: deb file:/cdrom/debian main/binary-i386/ The Packages file is read

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-22 Thread Mitch Blevins
Anthony Campbell wrote: I thought I'd got apt-get to read my local cdrom but it seems I was wrong. It will update the packages but won't install anything. I have a Cheapbytes cdrom. The entry in my sources.list is as follows: deb file:/cdrom/debian main/binary-i386/ The

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Oct 1998q, Mitch Blevins wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I thought I'd got apt-get to read my local cdrom but it seems I was wrong. It will update the packages but won't install anything. I have a Cheapbytes cdrom. The entry in my sources.list is as follows: deb

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-22 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of me, but search for Our Man Pann. He shows the /etc/apt/sources.list file as deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main But I don't think he was using the cheap bytes cd. His page WAS for hamm (2.0). He was NOT using apt under

Re: apt-get still won't work with local cdrom

1998-10-22 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:32:03PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of see the sig below me, but search for Our Man Pann. He shows the /etc/apt/sources.list file as deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main But I don't think he