Björn Johansson wrote: > On 24-Apr-00, you wrote: > > > I think there's some confusion here. If you have the filestructure > > available, just point apt to those files using a file: URL in > > /etc/apt/sources.list, e.g. > > > > file:/whatever/debian > > > > where /whatever/debian contains the directory "dists". Then you can use: > > > > apt-get update > > apt-get dist-upgrade > > apt-get install [package name] > > > > and all the other apt goodies. apt should also function within dselect if > > you do this, dselect will make package selection and management much > > easier than apt alone. > > I now have all the files(including the right filestructure) in: > /var/cache/apt/archives/dists/frozen/main/binary-powerpc/ > > Does this mean(in my case) that the sources.list haveto contain > this line: > > deb file:/var/cache/apt/archives/dists/frozen/main/binary-powerpc ?
Close. You should use file:/var/cache/apt/archives as the URL. It has to contain the directory "dists". > When installing Debian for the first time the base2_2.tgz get extracted > through the install program, could an upgrade for these files cause that > the password for root and other users disappear? :-/ I don't think so... > I managed to do > something strange with my system so that I couldn't log in as > root, hmm.. I have now done a new installation and I'm going to be > a *little* more careful this time ;). Sorry you had to reinstall, not sure what could have gone wrong. Hope you can get it to work! -Adam P.
