Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive
On 3/21/08, Tom Goulet <tomgtrfd@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/21/08, Michael Paulsen <mtp5150@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I haven't tried merging a the CD's yet. I'm cleaning of a HD partition
> > in preparation for my first attempt. Mean while I found a program
> > APT-MOVE, anyone know about this? I haven't looked up any man pages on
> > it yet, but I'm wondering if this is something I should use.
>
> I think you should use it if you were planning on setting up a local
> Debian mirror for your other computers there.
Actually that won't work. You can't use apt-move to copy .deb files
from your CD-ROM.
Just use cp -R.
It'll be fine. I think that I've even done it before and used it for a while.
Tom
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