Re: how to install debian originally from cd but copied to HD
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 14:12, ramsubs wrote:
> i'm a linux newbie and playing around with debian to learn. i've
installed and reinstalled it many times but the routine of swapping cds
(from the 3 cd-set) is bothersome.
>
> so i partitioned my HD increasing it by 3 partitions with the idea of
copying the 3 cds into the 3 partitions, and subsequently trying to
install from the HD direct. (partitions are fat32; but i had no problems
reading the boot floppies info from hda6)
>
> the installation process asks for sources from CDROM, filesystem, ftp,
http,.. I picked filesystem assuming i could refer to my local
partitions.
>
> i had to modify the /etc/apt/sources.list to read from the 3 new
partitions (hda6, hda7, hda8) but i'm stumped. i get error messages.
typically i used a line such as:
> deb file:/hda6/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages
> (the installer prompted this asking if i wanted to edit the file
manually, and then displayed ae to edit the file)
>
> i've checked man apt.get, apt.conf, sources.list but they don't
provide help i need (at least to my little understanding).
>
> hope someone can help me.
>
Firstly please don't post to the list in html. What I BELEIVE you are
going to need to mount each of these partitions as a file system let's
for the sake of ease create cdrom1 cdrom2 cdrom3 in /mnt. I'm not sure
if apt is going to be able to understand the schizophrenia of the three
sources since I've never installed from cd copied to hd, or cd for that
matter.
So from a console (alt-f2 and enter) after you get the install running
cd /mnt
or if it isn't there just do it from the root system and adjust
accordingly, I haven't installed in a a while.
mkdir cdrom1
mkdir cdrom2
mkdir cdrom3
mount -t vfat /dev/hda6 /mnt/cdrom1
mount -t vfat /dev/hda7 /mnt/cdrom2
mount -t vfat /dev/hda8 /mnt/cdrom3
then in sources.list:
deb file:/mnt/cdrom1/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages
deb file:/mnt/cdrom2/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages
deb file:/mnt/cdrom3/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/Packages
That should work for you.
--mike
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