Manish: While you have a good point, I have already given him the iso.
If he has problems then I will tell him to burn it to a CD.

On 9/28/08, Manish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ramnarayan.K wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:59 PM, Manish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>>
>>     > On 9/28/08, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>     <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>>
>>     If you burn it to a CD and mount it in your friend's comp, then a
>>     dialog
>>     box appears showing that a signed repository has been detected and do
>>     you want to import it. If you wish to continue, the packages are
>>     copied
>>     back to the archives and the index is also updated.
>>
>>
>> am wondering if my synaptic did not get updated because the iso was
>> kept on an external hd , rather than a cd ?? and i guess will need to
>> try your solution ,or see if synaptic can read an iso file thats not
>> on a cd / dvd ??
>>
>> thanks
>> ram
> If you use the ISO, then in that case also the Synaptic gets updates
> IMHO. Writing to CD has just the benefit that it gets detected as a repo
> and is imported automatically. Good for newbies.
>
> Thanks,
> Manish Sinha
>
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