Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-10 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Dave Swegen wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:38 -0400, Jim Foltz wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:46:58PM +, 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

Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:47:00PM -0400, John Forest wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: 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

Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-10 Thread John Forest
Michael Beattie wrote: easy.. make a small directory tree, (/usr/local/debian) with each Packages.gz within. i.e.: debian/dists/hamm/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz debian/dists/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz debian/dists/hamm/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.gz then fill the

Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
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

Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-09 Thread Jim Foltz
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:46:58PM +, 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

Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:38:27AM -0400, Jim Foltz wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:46:58PM +, 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

Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-09 Thread John Forest
Anthony Campbell wrote: 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

Re: Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-09 Thread Dave Swegen
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 11:38 -0400, Jim Foltz wrote: On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 03:46:58PM +, 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