On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 17:07:02 +0530, Bhasker C V wrote: > Questions by Florian Kulzer > > > How did you add the mounted DVD image to your sources.list? Did you > > use > > "file:" URIs? > > man sources.list | egrep 'deb(-src)? file' > > I have an apache httpd server running on the remote system and i have > added http address of the server > > this is my sources.list > deb http://s1/ETCH4_1/ stable main > deb http://s1/ETCH4_2/ stable main > > where s1 is my local network server.
I think the easiest solution for your problem is to mount the DVD directories locally on the Debian client, for example by using sshfs to connect to your s1 server. Then you can use the file: syntax in your sources.list, e.g. deb file:/path/to/mountpoint/ETCH4_1 stable main deb file:/path/to/mountpoint/ETCH4_2 stable main AFAIK, Release.gpg signatures are not necessary for file: URIs (just like for cdrom: URIs). Of course, that means that you should calculate the MD5sums and the SHA1sums of the two DVD images yourself and compare them to the ones given by Debian (in the MD5SUMS and the SHA1SUMS file): http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/4.0_r0/i386/iso-dvd/ (Change "i386" if you are on a different architecture.) (You probably performed this check already after you downloaded the DVDs.) If you have a trusted Debian system with the debian-keyring package then you can additionally verify Steve McIntyre's signatures for the *SUMS files (MD5SUMS.sign and SHA1SUMS.sign). You can also get Steve's key from a keyserver, which is less secure but better than not verifying the *SUMS files at all. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]