In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >There must be some undocumented functin in dselect. I have two >machines, and both of them have different access-methods. How can I >change the access method since I want to install by a remote CD, which >option is not shown. In the manpage this option is mentioned, but this >function is not available when I start dselect.
Manually edit /etc/apt/sources.list . The one I started with was pretty bogus, I wound up with (/cdrom is the first cdrom, /cdrom1 is the second): # See sources.list(5) for more information, especialy # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs deb file:/cdrom stable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb file:/cdrom1 stable main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free # Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free Mount the remote cdrom using NFS, and use a file: uri -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden
