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Problem with apt-cdrom on a Presario F700 (756NR)

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I posted a similar question last week and got one midly sarcastic reply. So let's try again.

Hardware: Presario f700 laptop

Software: Debian 4.3 AMD64 Etch 3-dvd set

What I've done so far: After installing, wanted to install gcc and other stuff. Tried apt-get update. That failed.

Then I tried apt-cdrom all. It unmounted the DVD but would not mound the DVD back on. It seems to know the name of the DVD but that's all.

I've reinstalled Debian 5 times. Get the same result each time.

sources.list appears normal. fstab appears normal.

Please, any thoughts?

Jack
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Re: Problem with apt-cdrom on a Presario F700 (756NR)

Submitted by pinniped on Fri, 2008-05-30 20:06.

Bizarre. Can you read the DVDs if you mount them manually?
If so, and you have the space to waste on your HD, you can copy the contents of those DVDs and access them from the HD. I did that once years ago because I got annoyed with swapping CDs.

It goes something like:
mkdir /home/deb
mkdir /home/deb/dvd1
cd /home/dev/dvd1
cp -a /path/to/mounted/dvd/dists .
cp -a /path/to/mounted/dvd/pool .

Then in the /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb file:/home/deb/dvd1 stable main contrib (even 'non-free' if such a directory exists in the 'pool' directory)

Try it with 1 DVD first and if it works you can add the others. Most software that you're likely to use will be on DVD1 anyway.

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