On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 03:47:34PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Hi, Andrew thanks for chiming in > If you _really_ want to have one .iso to mount - this is where the 16G .iso > or the BluRay sized disks help - one image that holds a larger chunk of the > whole archive. Yes, one big .iso seems to be more comfortable than a whole bunch of smaller ones. > apt-cdrom will effectively read the index(es) off the .iso of what packages > there are and will cache that. I understand that: this is the "iso sister" of apt(-get) update. My question: it does operate on the (already mounted) .iso image, right? Or does it do the (loopback and) mounting on its own? > If you have multiple DVDs, it will prompt you to > change them - so, actually, you could mount the DVD images in separate > directories under /media as individual mount points and then run apt-cdrom > to index them all with Tomas -d switch, as outlined above. Yes, that makes sense. Perhaps dedicate one directory to each install medium (/media/installers/buster/cd-23 or something). > For me - I find that a netinst - and internet bandwidth - is all that I need > but I recognise that that's not everyone's cup of $BEVERAGE. ISTR that Richard's Internet connectivity isn't... stellar. Sitting behind a >= 4Mbit spoils us, it seems :-) Cheers - t
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