Hello: Please let me know if this email should not be sent here, but either to debian-boot or debian-users or other lists. Basically, I am interested to put recent debian packages into a CDROM/RW -- so that I can update my PC at home which is not linked to the net. Currently I am using a script like this: % mkisofs -quiet -L -r -J -T -c boot.catalog -b \ dists/stable/de2/disks-i386/current/images-2.88/bf2.4/rescue.bin \ -m '*.iso' -V $DATE -o tmp/$IMAGE de2/ The problem is that I can not find any hints about how to modify "rescue.bin". Is there any "step-by-step" guide about: * how to make a boot floopy? * the script of building the Debian official CDROMs? * the script of building "netinst" The second problem is how to fetch debian packages. The current apt tools a tightly related to the host on where it runs. E.g. it will complain if fetching an existing package, etc. I notice that even "jigdo" does not utilize the "apt" family. Currently, I am extrating directly the information in "Packages" for the package location information. Last, I have no idea on how to check the dependencies. Currently, overcome this problem by only fetching packages from "dpkg --get-selections". Fortunately, the utility "apt-ftparchive" will take care of multiple package versions. Thank you for any clues, -- Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim -- vLSM.org -- http://rms46.vLSM.org -- Fingerprint F14C B03C 341F 2844 C094 819B 65FF B464 A5CA 4C15 --
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