On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Egbert Bouwman wrote: > Many months ago I learned somewhere that you have to use 'apt-cdrom' > in order to add CD's to your sources.list, and that worked. > But now Pann McCuaig sais he manually added a line for a CD > to sources.list: > deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main > and that worked as well. > > The man page for apt-cdrom says that you cannot do what Pan did - > at least that is what i understand from it. > Does somebody know the details ? Is apt-cdrom obsolete or something ?
You need apt-cdrom if you have the set of Debian official CDs. apt-cdrom then is supposed to tell you "insert disk #1, insert disk #2" and so on. [ Have you ever done a multi-volume backup using PKZIP? ]. If you only need packages on the first CD (which contains the most opoular packages), then you may forget about the others and use the file:/ trick and the normal APT method. However, in this case, dselect will show you as being available only those packages in the first CD.
