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Re: [REPOST] Recovering when di misleads Synaptic et al.



Why do we need three copies of this??
Lisi

On Saturday 19 November 2016 21:17:57 Richard Owlett wrote:
> This is *NOT* a bug report.
>
> I have a _USED_ laptop set aside for learning and experimentation.
> It has had as many as a half dozen clean installs in a single day ;/
> The CD drive has finally died [no plans to replace].
>
> With dd I have copied DVD 1 of Jessie to a USB flash drive.
> Install from the flash work fine.
>
> To add additional packages I must:
>
> richard@debian-jessie:~$ su -l
> Password:
> root@debian-jessie:~# gsettings set org.mate.media-handling
> automount false
> root@debian-jessie:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/sdb /media/cdrom
>
> Any simplifications, perhaps with preseeding?
> TIA


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