Re: using cd roms with dselect
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On Saturday 10 January 2004 03:23 pm, Jim Higson wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 20:01:41 +0000, Pigeon
> <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk>
>
> wrote:
> >> I don't have a cd burner, so how can I get apt-get install to see
> >> the iso
> >> images as install sources without burning the images to discs?
> >
> > The quick-and-nasty way: when apt asks for the cd to be inserted in
> > /cdrom/,
> > before you press return, switch to another VC and symlink
> > /dev/cdrom to the
> > iso mount point.
> >
> > It can be done "properly" but I can't remember off the top of my
> > head exactly how, and I'm not on the system that I have set up
> > "properly" so I can't post its config. Sorry!
>
> Ok. That sounds fine for now. I wonder is the 'right' way to create a
> local debian mirror? If so can this be done from the isos?
>
> When you get to that machine I'd be interested in seeing the proper
> config if you can post it.
>
> --
> Jim Higson
RE: the quick & nasty way ...: AFAIK, 'apt-cdrom add' looks to the
standard mount point for the cdrom, however, there is an option to use
with 'apt-cdrom (-d)' that allows you to specify the mount point. I
think, haven't done this, that you could loop mount each iso, i.e.,
as /mnt/cdrom1-7, then point apt-cdrom to each mount point. You will
always have to have each cdrom mounted on the same mount point for
dselect or apt-get to work though. A local mirror is a cleaner way but
I don't know how to get a mirror from the 7 cdroms.
- --
Greg Madden
Debian GNU/Linux
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