Re: Making installation cd from cached files

[Imre Vida <Imre.Vida@anat.uni-freiburg.de>]

On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:49:16PM -0700, Dan Owens wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to make a cd from the apt cache of an installed system that 
> can be used with the install floppies to install Debian?  
> 
> I would like to use the boot and root floppies to get started and then do the 
> install from the cd instead of downloading from the internet.  I have an 
> installed sid system, with cache, and would like to make a cd of the cache 
> for my brother, who doesn't have a fast internet connection.

copy the files from/to   /var/cache/apt/archives
pay attention that the database (apt-get update)
and  the packages are in synchrony  
you can get rid of old files with apt-get autoclean 
before making the CDS

imre