----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Heldebrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 3:40 AM Subject: Re: how to install debian originally from cd but copied to HD
> 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. sorry, i didn't realize it. will fix that. let me know if this one doesn't come out okay. > What I BELEIVE you are you believed perfectly... > 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 wonderfully existed there... and worked just like that. > 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 > everything went fine here too... (beginning to love debian more...) > 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. now i really love debian. however, just for the record, i hadn't understood the construction of the "deb file" statement so the lines above that you copied from me are my mistake. for the record, after experimenting a bit, i found the right structure. deb file:/mnt/cdrom1/ potato contrib main deb file:/mnt/cdrom1/ potato/non-US contrib main (i was a little anxious here doing a "potato/main", but boy what joy when it worked. newbie glee!) deb file:/mnt/cdrom2/ potato contrib main deb file:/mnt/cdrom2/ potato/non-US contrib main deb file:/mnt/cdrom3/ potato contrib main deb file:/mnt/cdrom3/ potato/non-US contrib main i was unsuccessful in trying to directly refer to the Packages file (as in the earlier incorrect code-statement). the installer didn't return any informative error message except to say "Malformed Line". i remember reading in man sources.list that i should end the line with "/"; i tried but it complained the same. > > --mike > everything worked like a charm. thank you so much mike. now i can fool around more.. :-)
