On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 14:12, ramsubs wrote: > i'm a linux newbie and playing around with debian to learn. i've installed and reinstalled it many times but the routine of swapping cds (from the 3 cd-set) is bothersome. > > so i partitioned my HD increasing it by 3 partitions with the idea of copying the 3 cds into the 3 partitions, and subsequently trying to install from the HD direct. (partitions are fat32; but i had no problems reading the boot floppies info from hda6) > > the installation process asks for sources from CDROM, filesystem, ftp, http,.. I picked filesystem assuming i could refer to my local partitions. > > i had to modify the /etc/apt/sources.list to read from the 3 new partitions (hda6, hda7, hda8) but i'm stumped. i get error messages. typically i used a line such as: > deb file:/hda6/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages > (the installer prompted this asking if i wanted to edit the file manually, and then displayed ae to edit the file) > > i've checked man apt.get, apt.conf, sources.list but they don't provide help i need (at least to my little understanding). > > hope someone can help me. >
Firstly please don't post to the list in html. What I BELEIVE you are going to need to mount each of these partitions as a file system let's for the sake of ease create cdrom1 cdrom2 cdrom3 in /mnt. I'm not sure if apt is going to be able to understand the schizophrenia of the three sources since I've never installed from cd copied to hd, or cd for that matter. So from a console (alt-f2 and enter) after you get the install running cd /mnt or if it isn't there just do it from the root system and adjust accordingly, I haven't installed in a a while. mkdir cdrom1 mkdir cdrom2 mkdir cdrom3 mount -t vfat /dev/hda6 /mnt/cdrom1 mount -t vfat /dev/hda7 /mnt/cdrom2 mount -t vfat /dev/hda8 /mnt/cdrom3 then in sources.list: deb file:/mnt/cdrom1/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages deb file:/mnt/cdrom2/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages deb file:/mnt/cdrom3/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages That should work for you. --mike
