On Mon, Mar 01, 1999 at 04:16:10PM +0000, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi! > > When I was new to debian, I made a hamm CD that is severely broken in > its directory structure. > > # ls /mnt/cdrom > binary-i386 disks-i386 upgrade-i386 > > # ls /mnt/cdrom/binary-i386 > Packages. Packages.gz devel hamradio net tex doc ... > > So, binary-i386 is complete. > > My /etc/apt/sources.list says > deb file:/mnt/cdrom/binary-i386/ / > > apt-get update works, but (for example) apt-get install joe tries to > install from > /mnt/cdrom/binary-i386/dists/stable/main/binary-i386/editors/joe_2.8-10.deb > which clearly does not exist. > > Which line do I need in sources.list for my broken cd? >
First create /mnt/main and then mount there CD. And in mnt create links dists, stable and frozen pointing to main. In /etc/apt/sources.list put this: deb file://localhost/mnt stable main This way everything should work as expected. -- o------------------o ___ |Leszek Gerwatowski| _/_|_\ o------------------o (o\__/o)=))))))))))))) "The day Micro$oft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners"
