[lug] jigdo help

[Jason Davis]

you can change unstable to stable

i have never had issue when using apt-get and a cd


On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 12:37 -0700, Gary Hodges wrote:
> I have some machines that only connect with dial-up accounts, so I'd 
> like to update them with a current DVD.  I followed the jigdo directions 
> on the Debian site and ended up with two DVD iso files that I made disks 
> with.
> 
> debian-31r1-i386-binary-1.iso
> debian-31r1-i386-binary-2.iso
> 
> I used "apt-cdrom add" which seemingly went as expected.  The following 
> lines were added to the sources.list file:
> 
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r1 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2 
> (20051218)] unstable contrib main
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r1 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 
> (20051218)] unstable contrib main
> 
> This brings up my first question.  Why are these entries listed as 
> unstable instead of stable?  Second question...  How do I then use these 
> disks to update the machine?  Running "aptitude update; aptitude 
> upgrade" doesn't do anything with either disk installed, mounted or not.
> 
> Gary
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