Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-14 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: ... > Light begins to dawn. I just carefully read manpage for sources.list . > Seems that I "knew" things that just weren't so ;/ > I have the morning free and will do some experimenting. > Thank you for your patience. i'm glad for that, especially if it does save you

Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/13/2017 05:40 PM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: On 02/12/2017 09:26 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: songbird wrote: ... years ago i copied from dvds to a subdirectory on an external USB drive. it worked ok, but i did have to tell in the apt sources list that i was

Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-13 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > On 02/12/2017 09:26 AM, songbird wrote: >> Richard Owlett wrote: >>> songbird wrote: >> ... years ago i copied from dvds to a subdirectory on an external USB drive. it worked ok, but i did have to tell in the apt sources list that i was using a file

Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/12/2017 09:26 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: songbird wrote: ... years ago i copied from dvds to a subdirectory on an external USB drive. it worked ok, but i did have to tell in the apt sources list that i was using a file and not a dvd. i am pretty sure i used a "cp

Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-12 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: >songbird wrote: ... >> years ago i copied from dvds to a subdirectory >> on an external USB drive. it worked ok, but i did >> have to tell in the apt sources list that i was >> using a file and not a dvd. >> >> i am pretty sure i used a "cp -r" to do it too... >> >>

Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/11/2017 10:55 PM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: ... Didn't get to it as soon as expected. Just copying /etc/apt/sources.list and /var/lib/apt/lists is not enough. Using either synaptic or apt-get I get an error message telling me to run apt-cdrom so the cdrom can be recognized.

Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 02/11/2017 07:45 PM, David Wright wrote: On Sat 11 Feb 2017 at 16:25:50 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: On 01/29/2017 01:18 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 01/29/2017 10:26 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 09:17:34AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm tracking down some

Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-11 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: ... > Didn't get to it as soon as expected. > Just copying /etc/apt/sources.list and /var/lib/apt/lists is not enough. > Using either synaptic or apt-get I get an error message telling me to run > apt-cdrom so the cdrom can be recognized. > The information about what package

Re: [FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-11 Thread David Wright
On Sat 11 Feb 2017 at 16:25:50 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/29/2017 01:18 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > >On 01/29/2017 10:26 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > >>On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 09:17:34AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > >>>I'm tracking down some problems related to chosen install

[FOLLOW-UP] Re: Having scanned set of installation DVDs...

2017-02-11 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/29/2017 01:18 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 01/29/2017 10:26 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 09:17:34AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm tracking down some problems related to chosen install options. I expect to be making _multiple_ clean installs. Besides