Re: Install debian from local iso images

[Lourens Steenkamp <palchen@ananzi.co.za>]

Lourens replying to Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL> wrote:

      >  High,
      >  
      >  On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Lourens Steenkamp wrote:
      >  
      >  > Hello everyone,
      >  >
      >  > This was posted on my local LUG.
      >  >
      >  > I would appreciate any suggestions for this potential Debian
      >  > user.
      >  >
      >  > "is it possible to install debian from local iso images
      >  > without having the need to write them to cd, much the same
      >  > way mandrake 9 gives you the option to do ?"
      >  >
      >  Easy. Mount them as a loop device, like:
      >  
      >  mount -o loop -t iso9660 /tmp/blabla/debian-cd1.iso /cdrom/
      >  

Thanks - I have forwarded this to the guy.

Bye.

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