On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 10:49:22AM +0000, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 09:22:43 +0100, you wrote: > >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. > > This way, I'd basically create a directory tree that does look like a > non-broken CD.
Yes, it was my intention. :-) Small errata: links dists, stable and frozen should point to actual directory (/mnt) not to main! Simply dists--->. , stable--->. , frozen--->. And apt looks into /mnt/dists/stable/main and it will look in fact into /mnt/main as it should in your case. Link "frozen" is sometimes needed by apt-get so you should also create it. > I see, this might be the only way to get apt-get to work on that CD. I think so. I've used it to get apt-get to work with my strange slink mirror. -- 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"
