[geeks] unbuntu server edgy eft 64 problem

[Francois Dion]

On 10/3/07, Chad McAuley <chizad at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/3/07, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Without flattening the box and starting over?
> >
> > I think your problem is that the CD-ROM is included in the repository listing, and you > need to comment it out - this link might help:
> >
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu
> >
> > Check item number 6.1 titled "disabling the CD-ROM repository" or something         > similar...
>
> Or, since I'm assuming Francios doesn't have a usable desktop yet (and
> those instructions only cover making change wtih Synaptic, the GUI
> front end to apt), he'll edit /etc/apt/sources.list and comment out
> the "deb cdrom:" lines, which should be at the beginning of the file.

When lionel sent the link, I right away figured out it was in the
above mentionned file. I fought for a while until, I think, I got
things cleaned up enough to restart an install from "scratch" of the
desktop, but then it was time to go home. We'll see tomorrow.