Help! How to force apt-get to use the cd (commandline only)

[Winterhart]

Is there a way to force apt-get to use only the cd-rom as a source? X won't start, so all I have is the root terminal from the Recovery menu, and that doesn't initialize the internet connection. The only package source I have is the CD.

I've gone so far as to remove everything *but* the cdrom line from /etc/apt/sources.list, and apt-get update runs fine. When I try to reinstall xfonts-base, though, it tells me that the package cannot be reinstalled because it cannot be downloaded.

What the heck?!

For the record, the error I'm getting is "Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'" (fc-cache -f -v doesn't work, neither does dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. The only thing I can think of is to reinstall the xfonts package... and if that doesn't work I'm just screwed.)

[cmnorton]

You have to go into your repository sources and check off the CD. On Ubuntu, I've forgotten where it is exactly -- I use Kubuntu -- but it's under Admin.