-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Chris, If you don't mind editing text files you can go to /etc/apt and edit sources.list by placing a hash (# shift 3) in front of the lines that begin "deb cdrom ". If you really prefer a gui go to system-administration-software sources and untick the cdrom entries (probably under the "third party software" tab.
Heracles Chris Allen wrote: > On my Ubuntu 8.04, I keep getting an icon (to right of screen) to say I > should check update > When I run Update manage, it says my system is up to date but hitting > the check button yields the error messages below. > > I think it means that it has look for new updates from the CD drive > which implies I should tell the system not to check the CD. > Am I right? If so how do I tell it to ignore said drive. > > FWIW, I installed this system from the a CD, a fresh install, not an > upgrade. Is that significant? > >> Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 >> (20080423)]/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz Please use >> apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot >> be used to add new CD-ROMs >> Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 8.04 _Hardy Heron_ - Release i386 >> (20080423)]/dists/hardy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz Please use >> apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot >> be used to add new CD-ROMs >> Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old >> ones used instead. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJRvJpybPcBAs9CE8RAvAzAJ4pH+3vMS3eH5XqLEneddftBiObigCgrxDa yEn87gnhWOFWZRG41tMzvTw= =vqUb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
