Re: Installing from iso images.

[bob parker <bob_parker@ozonline.com.au>]

On Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:00, David wrote:

<big snip>
>
> Rather than treat them as ISO images, if you're going to have the images
> permanently stored on the HD, why not just copy the contents of the
> CDROMS into directories on an ext{2,3}, reiserfs - or whatever your
> poison - filesystem and then in your sources.list, define it as "deb
> file:..." instead of "deb cdrom:.."  If you did a raw copy of all files
> on the cdrom, all the control packages would be present, would they not,
> and a simple <pkgmanager> update would update the apt database, would
> it not?

They are on as isos because I supply Linux distros of various flavours to 
members of my local lug. 
Also, as indicated in a previous post I found out what I was doing wrong and 
it seems to ok now.

Cheers
Bob