Re: using debian dvd iso image with apt

[Giancarlo Pegoraro <genkipegoraro@gmail.com>]

Hi,
Il giorno mar, 19/05/2009 alle 16.35 +0200, Raffaele Morelli ha scritto:
> 
> 
> 2009/5/19 Bhasker C V <bhasker@unixindia.com>
>         On Tue, 19 May 2009, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson wrote:
>         
>                 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.
>                         
>         By 'not connected' do you mean not even connected to internal
>         netwok ?
>         They may not be connected to the internet but are they
>         internally connected in a private network ? 
> 
> no, they are not connected to a public network nor internally in a
> private one.
Sometime I haven't a dvd drive, I copy the dvd.iso in the external Hard
disk and write the /etc/apt/source.list same this:

deb file://media/YOUR_USBDISK/DIRECTORY_iso lenny main contrib
deb file://media/YOUR_USBDISK/DIRECTORY_iso1 lenny main contrib
etc...

> regards
> -r
Ciao Genki ):o))