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   From: David J Bush    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: apt-cdrom won't read my Debian 3.1 Sarge CDs   
   Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:49:07 -0500   
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   I have Kubuntu Edgy preinstalled. My modem is not working yet.   
   This is being posted from a different machine.   
   I have 14 Debian 3.1 CDs and I would like to add these   
   packages to the repositories available to Adept and aptitude.   
   But apt-cdrom gives me an error message:   
      
   david@kubuntu:~$ sudo apt-cdrom add   
   Password:   
   Using CD-ROM mount point /cdrom/   
   Unmounting CD-ROM   
   Waiting for disc...   
   Please insert a Disc in the drive and press Enter   
   Mounting CD-ROM...   
   Identifying.. [55444b048138eee203661d89d2975e89-2]   
   Scanning disc for index files...   
   Found 0 package indexes, 0 source indexes, 0 translation indexes and 0   
   signatures   
   E: Unable to locate any package files, perhaps this is not a Debian disc   
      
   I tried apt-cdrom again, using the -a option for a more throrough   
   scan. I got the same result. This was with disc 1 of 14 of Debian official 3.1   
   Sarge.   
      
   Here is some info on how the Debian CD files and folders are structured:   
      
   /cdrom/   
      
   FOLDERS: .disk dists doc install isolinux pics pool tools   
      LINK: debian   
     FILES: autorun.bat autorun.inf md5sum.txt README.html   
            README.mirrors.html README.mirrors.txt README.txt   
      
   /cdrom/pool/main/   
      
   FOLDERS: a b c ... and liba libb libc ...   
      
   Each of these folders in turn contains sub-folders named for a specific .deb   
   file, and THOSE folders each contain a .deb file.   
      
   It all worked fine when I was running Debian on a different machine. Aptitude   
   would tell me "Insert disc N" at the appropriate moments. I didn't have to   
   copy any files to the hard drive, nor write any scripts. I would like to be   
   able to do the same thing under Kubuntu. But apt-cdrom won't read my discs!   
      
   Has anyone else encountered this problem? How do I make it work?   
      
   Thanks for your time.   
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