Chris O'Halloran wrote:
Hello,
How did you add the the usb drive as a repository? Or is that even what you did? Or by running aptitude dist-upgrade in the same directory did that pick it up?
Just curiuos to know how you rescued the system.
I have a mirror of the complete edgy repository (several Gb) on a 2.5" external hdd [1] so I just add lines like this to my /etc/apt/sources.list deb file:/media/sdb1/path/to/repository/ubuntu edgy main ...etc Then apt treats it just the same as a cdrom or http source, except that it skips the download step, and I just do 'aptitude <whatever>' as usual. Glenn [1] which I mirror from a mirror at Ak Uni when I have have my laptop plugged into the LAN, I'm a part time grad student there -- Glenn Ramsey <glenn(a)componic.co.nz> 07 8627077 http://www.componic.co.nz