On 03/17/2017 11:15 AM, songbird wrote:
Richard Owlett wrote:As I have limited bandwidth, I install from DVDs. Also I frequently experiment with various options by doing a fresh install to a different partition. It is annoying to keep re-scanning a set of 13 DVDs. Where is the information stored? /etc/apt/sources.list is obvious, but where is the data about contents of each DVD stored?man apt-get
It implies *BUT DOES _NOT_ STATE* the all the requested data is in the /var/lib/apt directory.
I hadn't thought of looking at apt-get when I posted, even though I had just chased down some differences on how synaptic and apt-get differed in how they logged some trans action. mea culpa ;>
and as i've previously said, you can copy the dvds to spinning rust or a SSD and avoid all future needs to reload from them again...
Yes but <smile>in my peculiar situation it is better to know on which DVD something resides than to spend ~1000 times more storage space to duplicate the data.
and futhermore, if you are doing partitions you can do some minimal install to get the base system going, then do a partition copy of that and you'll not have to redo the previous steps again to recover if you want to try something else. songbird