Comments on: Switch Ubuntu Server to use Internet Repositories Instead of cdrom

By: ftpmget

ftpmget — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:29:19 +0000

thx, man, helped me to overcome the annoying prompt for dvd insertion.
thx again.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 08:06:30 +0000

Thanks very much. I’ll try that.
Another question, which I can’t find the answer to: I have a lot of photographs (jpegs) burned on to CDs. But when I put them in the drive nothing at all happens and I can’t find them by browsing the files.
Any idea how I can make them display? Thanks.

By: The Geek

The Geek — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 06:23:24 +0000

If you are using Ubuntu Desktop, you might want to use the article “Update Ubuntu Repository list using Software Sources GUI Tool” linked in the related how-to list above.

You can just uncheck the cdrom from there, mostly likely.

Otherwise, you can open the file /etc/apt/sources.list in whatever editor you choose, and put the # right before the cdrom line, on the same line.

By: Keith

Keith — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 05:07:49 +0000

It’s a great site you have here. I just installed Ubuntu and over the past two days have been really struggling with it.
I’m not sure what you mean by this:
“The first thing you’ll want to do is comment out this line, by placing a # symbol before it.”
You mean, before typing out sudo vi /etc apt/sources. list ?

apologies if I sound dim, but it’s no fun being a newbie!