On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 12:32:03PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > Pann McCuiag has a debian web page (i don't have the url in front of
see the sig below > me, but search for "Our Man Pann". He shows the /etc/apt/sources.list > file as > > deb file:/cdrom/debian stable main > > But I don't think he was using the cheap bytes cd. His page WAS for > hamm (2.0). No, but I was using a CD from Johnie Ingram ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) that I'm sure was burned from the official CD image. > He was NOT using apt under dselect. He was using > > apt-get install packagenames > > to install individual packages. I haven't tried this myself (yet). > Oh yeah you have to mount the cdrom first, besure to set the user flag > in /etc/fstab. Once apt is installed you can use the apt method in dselect, but I recommend newbies avoid dselect like the plague. YMMV Luck, Pann -- What's All the Buzz About Linux? http://www.rdrop.com/users/pann/