Re: creating a cd-image

[Philipp Bliedung <philipp.bliedung@bliedung.de>]

thanks for your help!
I want to set up a server (at home), and there is no cd-drive in it - I 
won't need a cd-drive in there anyway. but just in case I want to 
install extra packages I thought I'd just put the iso-images on the hdd 
and install all the packages as usual using apt-get.

I'm pretty sure mkisofs is what I was looking for....

thanks,
Philipp
Jeremy wrote:

> Philipp Bliedung <philipp.bliedung@bliedung.de> writes:
>
> > I want to create images off the potato cds. Which program could I use?
>
> Well, if you're looking to just make images (copies) from the CDs, I believe
> that readcd should work.  (it comes with the cdrecord package)
>
> > After I have these images I just have to edit /etc/fstab and add the
> > location, mount point, type and options, right?
>
> It depends on what you're doing with them.  Are you creating a personalized
> installation set?
>
> > Of course I have to edit /etc/apt/sources.list too, but then I would  be able
> > to mount these images like any other device or partition?
>
> Hmmmmm... this isn't something I've attempted, but I'm _thinking_ that you
> should be able to use the loopback device to mount the images made by
> readcd.  
>
> I hope I haven't thrown you too far off track.  =0)
>
> Jeremy