From: motamed...@hotmail.com
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: FW: mount cdrom?
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:58:38 +0000
From: motamed...@hotmail.com
To: lisi.re...@gmail.com
Subject: RE: mount cdrom?
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 06:08:36 +0000
> From: lisi.re...@gmail.com
> To: motamed...@hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: mount cdrom?
> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:04:52 +0100
>
>
>
> On Saturday 13 October 2012 12:41:30 you wrote:
> > > From: lisi.re...@gmail.com
> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > > Subject: Re: mount cdrom?
> > > Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 12:37:08 +0100
> > >
> > > On Saturday 13 October 2012 11:43:12 Hadi Motamedi wrote:
> > > > Brad wrote:
> > > >> I wonder why you want to
> > > >>
> > > > > use a CD to install packages? The online repos are generally better
> > > > > for this.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Regards _
> > > > > / ) "The blindingly obvious is
> > > > > / _)rad never immediately apparent"
> > > > > Who's a sucker now?
> > > > > Edward The Bear - The Damned
> > > >
> > > > Thank you for your reply. But I have downloaded the other two iso
> > > > images named "debian-6.0.6-kfreebsd-i386-CD-2.iso" &
> > > > "debian-6.0.6-kfreebsd-i386-CD-3.iso" so I wanted to make use of them
> > > > to install other packages from .
> > >
> > > Yes, but that doesn't answer Brad's question. Why?
> > >
> > > Lisi
> >
> > Actually, for downloading iso images I had high speed download link. But at
> > now, my server does not have high speed internet connection at the moment
> > so I thought that if I can make use of the other iso image CDs to install
> > packages.
>
> I assume that you have actually tried just offering them to the installer?
>
> Go to your sources.list, as root, look at the entry for CD1, and copy to
> create entries for the other CDs. (Mutatis mutandis, of couirse.) I can't,
> I'm afraid, tell you where kfreebsd keeps it's files.
>
> Lisi
Under /etc/apt/sources.list , the entry comes as :
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 6.0.6_Squeeze_-Official kfreebsd -i386 CD Binary
-l 20120929:58]/Squeeze main
Can you please let me know how do I need to modify it to be able to read from
the cdrom drive ?
