Manually Adding a CDROM to Your Repositories : Ubuntu (6.10)

I’ve been meaning to upgrade one of my non-production machines to Feisty this last week and finally found some time to do it over the weekend. It’s actually upgrading now as I write this. I wanted to share one tip that I found in trying to upgrade, which could be simply due to my own hardware but it may affect others.

The Herd 1 or daily build CD would not boot on two of my less-than-production machines. Hopefully that’ll be fixed by final release (which I’m sure it will be). In the meantime I thought I would just manually update my repositories to upgrade to Feisty and see how that route worked for me. What I wanted to avoid though was having to download the entire mess of files again considering I already had the nightly build CD!

There are two ways you can do this:

1. You can navigate your way to System > Admin > Software Sources, select Third Party and then “Add Cdrom”. This should prompt you to insert your Cdrom and it will add that as a new repository source for you.
2. The second way to do this (the way I had to do it) was manually. For whatever reason option one wouldn’t work. To add a cd repository manually you can run the following command:

sudo apt-cdrom add

This should also prompt you to insert the CD (or proceed as expected if its already inserted) and add your new CD source to the sources.list file.

For those of you who want to help troubleshoot Feisty during these early stages in development and have an extra (NON-PRODUCTION) machine to work on why not go grab a CD and install it. If you have a similar issue in not recognizing the CD after boot perhaps try one of the methods above and upgrade from Edgy.

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