Re: apt-cdrom and loopback .iso files
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 09:39:39AM +0100, Glyn Kennington wrote:
> Never assume that someone knows what a .iso file is just because they
> own a CD writer.
>
> I recently gave a friend 7 CDRs to burn me a copy of woody, as she has
> better bandwidth, more hard-drive space for the .iso's, and a faster CD
> burner than me. I know now that I should have done it myself, because
> my friend has used some drag-n-drop windoze CD creating software and the
> results are double-escaped .iso's - that is, each CD contains one file -
> the relevant .iso . Fortunately I have loopback compiled into my
> kernel, so I can still mount the CDs and then remount the .iso to access
> the files.
>
> My problem is that I want to use apt-cdrom and apt-get to install
> packages off these CDs, rather than mounting each one twice until I find
> the right package, copying it over, and running dpkg manually. Can
> anyone suggest a small script, workaround or config-file option that I
> could use to access the files via loopback?
I guess the really kludgy workaround is to reburn the CD's
yourself. You can probably get away with just a subset of them
(apparently the most common stuff fits on three cds, not sure which
three though :) )
- Chris
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