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On Wednesday 03 September 2003 04:36 pm, Andrew Malcolmson wrote:
John Stevenson wrote:
I'm trying to use a sid iso image as a apt source. I've successfully mounted it and added a file entry to sources.list as:
deb file:/mnt/iso/debian sid main
The correct way to add an Official Debian CD to the apt sources.list file is to use the command:
apt-cdrom add
You should run this command as root. This will prompt you to put in a cdrom, do not mount the cdrom yourself as the apt-cdrom does all this for you. You should end up with a sources.list entry that starts with:
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux .....
You may find that some or all of the existing entries are commented out by apt-cdrom. If you are concerned, you should make a backup copy of sources.list.
Thanks, though pretty much the same thing happens after a apt-cdrom add:
Scanning Disc for index files.. Found 0 package indexes and 0 source indexes. E: Unable to locate any package files, perhaps this is not a Debian Disc
I guess the basic problem is just that the Packages file is in a 'binary-alpha' directory instead of in a 'binary-i386' directory as is usual.
But everyone who downloads a Sid image must have this problem but I don't see anyone mentioning this, so what's going on here?
Uhmm.. might be a dumb suggestion, but do you have a i386 Sid cd. Sounds like you may have dl'd an alpha iso.
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Oh, fer chris' sakes. I guess I downloaded the wrong jigdo files and then thought alpha was like in an alpha release.
Thanks for that
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