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Re: [LUG] Debian 14-disc installer

 

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:50:33 +0100
Tony Sumner wrote:

> I have the 14-disc Debian set for sarge 3.1r0a and I've installed a
> basic system but I'm not sure I got it right. At one point the
> installer said if you have eg a two-disc set put another disc in so
> I put disc 2 in and it said the same thing again. I left it at that
> but I now think maybe I should have put all 13 in. Anyway
> /etc/apt/sources.list just has two lines in it, referring to discs 1
> and 2. So apt-cache search emacs doesn't appear to know about emacs
> which doesn't seem right. How do I get the other 12 lines into
> /etc/apt/sources.list short of re-installing?
> 
> Tony Sumner

From *man sources.list*

The cdrom scheme allows APT to use a local CDROM drive with media swapping. Use the 
apt-cdrom(8) program to create cdrom entries in the source list.

Grant.
-- 
Unix:  Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once.

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