Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
>On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Santiago Vila wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Philip Charles wrote:
>>
>> > On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>> >
>> > > No more than all the other ugly things that have been suggested, and this
>> > > only affects the 3 people silly enough to loopback mount ISO's and try to
>> > > use APT on them.
>> >
>> > I have used this myself. It is a good way to test an image. It is also
>> > used by people who have borrowed CDs and do not have a burner.
>>
>> I use this too, and I even have a burner.
>>
>> A loopback ISO mount is always faster than the real CD.
>> If this is not going to be possible anymore, we lose *valuable* functionality.
>
>I also (relatively) often use it.
>
>Cheers,
>Cristian
Hello to the group of people who know more than me.
I also use the loop for CD speed increase to HDD speed.
Let us include the loopback device on our install system.
Mandrake does it now.
The hd.img floppy for Mandrake looks for your ftp archive locally on
your hdd
--or--
it asks for the location of your CD image iso file.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It mounts the iso image for use as a CD.
You get
blazing speed and simple usage for the folks.
Cheers, Bill Bennet.
"Where the only monopoly we support has a Boardwalk and a Baltic Avenue."
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