Hi,

1. I have copied my Debian CDs to hard-disk and have added the
required sources.list lines. The problem is that, when i do a apt-get
install pkg, it tries to load from the internet since they have the
latest pkg. Since i pay for data transfer, i was wondering if there
was a way to tell apt-get to use file:/ instead of the net?

Obviously i don't want to hash out my http:// and ftp:// source.list,
lines because i do install from the net from time to time - also,
every time i hash in the net lines apt will redownload meta-data and
upto 5-6MB goes waste.

dpkg -i /verylongPath is not an option - i want this working in apt-
get.

2. Is there a way to tell the debian kernel module not to load certain
modules. Blacklisting doesn't seem to be the right way from what i
understood of the man modprobe.conf page. I've got pcspkr, rtc, ipv6,
ali_agp, processor etc loaded and i don;t want to rmmod them - i'd
rather not have them load. Is there any way to do this?

I am using Debian Etch, kernel -2.6.18-5-486.


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Vivek.M wrote:
> 1. I have copied my Debian CDs to hard-disk and have added the
> required sources.list lines. The problem is that, when i do a apt-get
> install pkg, it tries to load from the internet since they have the
> latest pkg. Since i pay for data transfer, i was wondering if there
> was a way to tell apt-get to use file:/ instead of the net?

apt-get install package=version

Where version is some version on the CD. Use apt-get policy package to
see available versions and where they come from.

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Vivek.M wrote:
> 2. Is there a way to tell the debian kernel module not to load certain
> modules. Blacklisting doesn't seem to be the right way from what i
> understood of the man modprobe.conf page. I've got pcspkr, rtc, ipv6,
> ali_agp, processor etc loaded and i don;t want to rmmod them - i'd
> rather not have them load. Is there any way to do this?

See the "documentation" at http://bugs,debian.org/426166

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Thanks guys (Joey, Florian), I'll try that.

(Sorry for the SPAM, it was inadvertent - i did issue a cancel from
google-groups, but it doesn't seem to have worked)


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