Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 05/13/2021 08:32 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 06:42:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Somebody has written on the general topic but what I had seen was
> > not in the debian.org hierarchy. What I had seen accommodated
> > multiple ISO9660 DVD images in a single directory without using loop
> > mounting. Once found I'd like to see it reference in Section 4.3 of
> > "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide".
>
> Hm. There are ways to access iso9660 without mounting it
> (libiso9660, for example), but I don't think apt follows
> that path (glad to learn something new).
>
> Is there any special reason you want to avoid mounting?
>
> Cheers
>   - t

It's _loop_ mounting of _each_ ISO I wish to avoid.

What I had seen had the general for in fstab of

  /dev/hdb5	/mydvds	ISO9660		defaults	1	1

and each iso of a dvd had its own line in sources.list *IIRC*