needing the CD after installation for apt-get installs bugs me

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Wed Oct 6 16:59:37 UTC 2004


On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 07:37:00AM -0700, Darren Critchley wrote:

> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> >The ideal solution would be to cache them on the hard disk so that the CD
> >is not needed; I think that Colin has looked at this, but it is
> >non-trivial to implement at this time.
> >
> This is actually easily remedied by the end user, go in to Synaptic and
> remove the CD as one of the sources - it is the first in the list.  After
> that, Ubuntu will not go back to the CD to get a package.

...but it will go to the network, which defeats the benefit of including the
packages on the CD. :-)

-- 
 - mdz




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