Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:15:53AM -0700, Michael Paulsen wrote:
> 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. Otherwise, the brute
> > force cp approach looks easier.
>
> Yea, I'm thinking your right. Been looking at/for documentation on
> APT-MOVE and I'm thinking its more complicated then I want to handle.
I did this years ago, and I just copied the contents to separate
directories and used the apt command (forget which) so that it looked
for the cd in a mounted directory.
I, too, am on rural dial-up. However, after the initial install, the
biggest problem isn't installing software, but the security updates that
thus don't come on the CDs. When doing the initial install, I do base,
then groups of related packages keeping the download to a reasonable
time (e.g. under 12 hrs). Luckily, you can interrupt aptitude to use
the phone and it will carry on again.
Doug.
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