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Hello, I was wondering if apt can be configured so it defaults to installing from a internet site if the CD is not available. I configured it to look at ...
  1. 07-11-2005 #1
    baysidelinux
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    apt configuration

    Hello,
    I was wondering if apt can be configured so it defaults to installing from a internet site if the CD is not available. I configured it to look at both but I can only get it to use the CD, unless I remove the CD entries and leave the Internet entries.
    Thanks,
    Art
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    I don't use apt (anymore) but have you tried putting the internet sources before the CD in /etc/apt/sources.list?

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    can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list ?
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    Still asks for CDs when network sources at the top...

    #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

    deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

    deb http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ stable main
    deb-src http://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ stable main

    deb ftp://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ stable main
    deb-src ftp://ftp.egr.msu.edu/debian/ stable main


    deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-14 (20050605)]/ unstable contrib main
    deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-13 (20050605)]/ unstable contrib main
    deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-12 (20050605)]/ unstable contrib main
    deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-10 (20050605)]/ unstable contrib main
    deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-11 (20050605)]/ unstable contrib main
    deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-9 (20050605)]/ unstable contrib main
    deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-8 (20050605)]/ unstable contrib main
    deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20050605)]/ unstable contrib main
    deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-6 (20050605)]/ unstable contrib main
    deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-5 (20050605)]/ unstable contrib main
    deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-4 (20050605)]/ unstable contrib main
    deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20050605)]/ unstable contrib main
    deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20050605)]/ unstable contrib main
    deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050605)]/ unstable contrib main
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  5. 07-12-2005 #5
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    put a # (comment out) infront of your cdrom sources.
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