On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 12:11:29AM -0000, 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? Using apt-proxy, I believe; I think you can create the local mirror initially from the isos and then update it from the net. The system I refer to has the isos for Woody 3.0r0 copied onto hard disk and loopback mounted on one machine, then the root directory of the mounts is exported as a samba share and /etc/apt/sources.list on other machines on the network pointed at that. Nothing particularly involved, but ISTR there was a certain (small) amount of jiggery-pokery involved in setting it up. The machine I'm on at the moment doesn't have enough disk space to replicate that setup; so while I could re-read the docs, I couldn't test my results and I wouldn't want to go posting something that didn't work :-) Since my only internet access is by dialup, and there have been a lot of packages updated since 3.0r0, I haven't set up apt-proxy. Updating everything would saturate my connection for rather a long time... I need to find an ISP that will allow me to pay for a broadband connection in cash, same as I pay for my dialup, then I will set up apt-proxy! > When you get to that machine I'd be interested in seeing the proper config > if you can post it. Sure. Might not be for a week or two though. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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