Re: Using ISO image of installer DVD as repository - How?

[mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com>]

On 2019-05-31 13:20, Richard Owlett wrote:
> With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did:
>    dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M
> I edited sources.list to read
>    deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes
>
> When running Synaptic's
>     Edit->Reload Package Information
> I receive an error message:
> > The repository 'file:/home/richard/dvd.iso stretch Release'
> > does not have a Release file.
>
> What is the problem?
> TIA

I'm going to get in trouble for this but if I could offer advice.
You seem more interested in the actual install process than getting it 
running and doing something with it.
Fair enough, it is like a hobby,
When came across this stuff I was the same, installed whatever 
distribution on awkward hardware just to see.
But I had no idea what I was doing.
There is so much to know and if you have a memory like a sieve like me 
it is really hard to grasp how it all works.
These days I accept the default installation and that which is needed to 
do bits of image manipulation and I really like having the email and 
webserver software and that's it.

cheers

mick


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