Installing from CD

[gabrielle harrison and Paul van den Bergen]

On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:37:57 +1000, Ignazio Palmisano  
<ignazio_io at yahoo.it> wrote:

> gabrielle harrison and Paul van den Bergen wrote:
>> what is odd is that it seems to be downloading most of the stuff from  
>> the net not the cd...
>
> Maybe that depends on your sources.list file? I tried to update from the  
> cdrom in the following way:
>
> apt-cdrom add
>
> then disabled each line apart from the newly added cdrom line
> and just ran a complete update from Synaptic. It worked nicely apart  
> from the fact that synaptic (and adept and aptitude) found the package  
> database locked on the next restart :-) but that was probably due to a  
> corrupted image...
> HTH,
> Ignazio

.... why didn't I think of that....

trying it now (synaptic complains of broken packages... but seems to be OK  
ish)

-- 
Dr Paul van den Bergen
Chance favours the prepared mind