[NCLUG] Fragile flies with broken wings

[dmiles]

That falls to the apt-cdrom tool, it'll scan that cdrom and add the contents to your apt source list

check out man apt-cdrom and it'll tell you how to add a cdrom to your apt source list

On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:17:25 -0800 (PST), Person Who Asked To Have Her Name Removed From The Internet <ADDRESS_REMOVED_BY_REQUEST> wrote:
> 
> I've got an iso image on my harddrive of some of woody
> which I can mount but don't know how to get dselect
> to access it....
> help?!?
> 
> 
> --- dmiles <dmiles at holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
> > yeah, I pretty much did the same but it would be really nice to have a way of
> > getting the woody stuff on a CD 'cause otherwise we're really going to kill the
> > Apt servers in this install fest.
> >
> > Is there a program I can run (like dselect maybe) that would simply download the .deb
> > files and allow me to build a disc image out of them?
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 22:08:33 -0700, John Purser <jmpurser2 at home.com>  wrote:
> > > I got to woody by downloading some .raw files, changing the name to .iso and
> > > burning the CD.  That said I only got a base distribution that way.  Nothing
> > > else would install during installation.  No trouble with apt-get afterwards
> > > so I'm adding things on program at a time.
> > >
> > > Once I got over the rough install I really liked Debian Woody.
> > >
> > > John Purser
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: nclug-admin at nclug.org [mailto:nclug-admin at nclug.org]On Behalf Of
> > > > dmiles
> > > > Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 21:52
> > > > To: nclug at nclug.org
> > > > Subject: Re: Re: [NCLUG] Fragile flies with broken wings
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > My experiance is that potato is so incredibly old that it
> > > > doesn't even support newer hardware. It had a lot of trouble
> > > > with my P3 and I never did get my sound card up and
> > > > running... I had to go to woody for that.
> > > >
> > > > BTW, anybody knwo where I can get some woody ISO's?
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 04:46:21 +0000, Matthew Wilcox
> > > > <willy at debian.org> wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 07:13:09PM -0800, dmiles wrote:
> > > > > > To tell you the truth I'm not sure WHY they even have
> > > > > > potato, it's SO old...
> > > > >
> > > > > Old is stable.  There are still people running (and maintaining) the
> > > > > Linux 2.0 kernel.  That said, it would make a lot of sense
> > > > to do more
> > > > > frequent releases, and it is something we're planning.  How
> > > > well that
> > > > > will work remains to be seen.
> > > > >
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