Re: Building a debian distribution base on hdd
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 03:55:57PM +0200, Jeroen Roovers wrote:
> Can anyone point out to me the correct directory structure for a
> Debian software base, or more precisely a way to build the structure
> from 7 installation iso9660 images? What I previously tried was
> simply to copy them all to the same folder (and see what happens).
> But that apparently wasn't it: I had a long chat with dselect about
> where I thought my Package files, my contrib, my main, my non-US and
> so on would be, and it found a fair part of the huge pile of
> packages, but not everything.
>
> I also experimented with different directory contents a bit, and now
> it's broken. :-) I have taken fresh encouragement of the fact that I
> know what is fundamentally wrong with my setup, and with plenty of hd
> space to fool iso files and their contents around on, I'd really like
> to see the basic floor plan that will really get me started.
Take a look at apt-move and debarchiver. Remember, with debian, if
it's at all useful somebody has probably already figured it out.
apt-cache search is your friend :)
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