on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:49:58PM -0500, Rich Renomeron (renomero@yahoo.com) wrote: > Hello, > > I have a CD-ROM-less laptop running the original 2.2 and a set of > official 2.2r2 CD's, and I would like to use them to upgrade without > having to connect to the internet. Is there any way, documented or > otherwise, that I can use a network-shared CD-ROM drive (NFS, SMB) on > another machine and still use the multi-CD capability of apt? Not sure. Why not just copy archive to disk then though? It's far faster than CDR, particularly over a network and multiple users. > Another question: Do the archives listed in /etc/apt/sources.list have > to have the correct Debian directory structure? I would like to have > apt-get look into an unorganized directory of deb files (specifically a > copy of the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives on another machine) so I > don't have to download the same set of packages twice for each machine. You want to explore either mirroring archives or setting up a squid proxy, which, with sufficient space, will do what you're looking for transparently. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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