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Re: How to copy installation CD's to local hard drive?



Il giorno ven, 08-04-2005 alle 14:58 -0400, Doyle, Patrick ha scritto:
> I can't seem to find this answer to this anywhere I've looked, so now I am
> going to turn to humans with much more experience than I.
> 
> I would like to keep a copy of the 7 installation CD's (from woody) on my
> local hard disk, and to configure apt to reference the local copies, instead
> of having apt prompt me to insert disc #N whenever I want to add a new
> package.

Hi Patrick,
just copy all CDs as subdirectories of /where/you/have/space and tell
apt to point to the files. Please see the man page for sources.list and
the "file" URI method.

Bye,
Giuseppe



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