Re: using debian dvd iso image with apt
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 01:51:45PM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
> Hi you all,
>
> I have 3 debian boxes (two i386 and one amd64) which are not connected to
> the network so I usually do upgrades by downloading weekly generated dvd iso
> images, burning images to a dvd-rw and running apt-cdrom add && apt-upgrade.
>
> My question is: can I fool apt in order to avoid burning dvd-rw each week?
>
> I am not lazy but I do this regularly and burning two dvd-iso for different
> archs sometimes makes me crazy because of errors, dvd's failures or data
> corruption.
>
> Any suggestion is appreciated.
Have you thought about using a USB pen drive to do this
instead of DVD, would think the pen drive was a bit more
reliable (or an external hd with USB interface)
Oli
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