Re: using debian dvd iso image with apt

[Raffaele Morelli <raffaele.morelli@gmail.com>]

2009/5/18 Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt>

> My question is: can I fool apt in order to avoid burning dvd-rw each week?

Hopefully yes, what a waste!!! I only see the cd stuff in sources.list
after the install... then i delete it. You can surely loopmount iso
images... won't they have a device attached? Maybe input that device
to apt?... Dunno...

tried once when I was on lenny/testing but with no success...
I can try again and post error messages
 

How about making a local mirror? Downloading stuff do a directory and
sharing it... that way your local network can access that particular
machine instead of the offsite regular Debian repos.

I know this works, with one machine (56k modem) I used to do apt-get --print-uris in order to dowload necessary packages at work with a fast connection.

The problem with one of these 3 boxes I am referring to is that they are really faraway from any network/phone cable... it lives in a wine cellar (cantina in italian).

regards
-r