[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Two problems, apt-get has stopped mounting my periph PCMCIA cdrom >(EXP). When I try apt-cdrom add, it prompts me to put in cdrom, but >then it complains that it is not a valid block device. Don't >understand why this has started happeing, as it used to work fine.
Is /dev/cdrom a link to the right place? >So, as a workaround I mounted the CDROM, looked through source files, >and copied the x11 directory to /sources/x11 on my hard drive. Then >tried to compile from there. First did gunzip *.* then tar *.* ; Note that *.* is a DOSism; on Unix, it matches all files containing at least one dot (apart from files with initial dots, which are generally sort-of-hidden). However, our * works properly, unlike that of DOS, so get into the habit of using * when you mean "all non-hidden files and directories in the current directory". >but I don't think I have source packages; still have .diff .dsc >and .tar files. How to make progress from here?? Those *are* source packages. :) 'dpkg-source -x foo.dsc' will unpack them (that's what 'apt-get source' calls), then 'dpkg-buildpackage' will build them. Ideally, install the fakeroot package, and then you can build packages using 'dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot' as an ordinary user as opposed to root. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
