Curt wrote:
On 2012-10-05, Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
To summarize:
I effectively _HAVE_ the contents of a relevant repository
on 8 physically discrete DVDs.
I *REQUIRE* that content to reside on a single partition of
a single disk in a form acceptable to apt-get.
For reasons I'll not go into, any solution requiring
networking of any form is irrelevant.
The thread below looks edifying for a simple solution to your
difficulties, if I'm understanding them correctly (it consists of
copying the dvds to disc as "iso" files and using apt-cdrom to create
sources accessible by apt-get).
http://oldsite.debianhelp.org/node/10486
HTH
Thanks. I'm not sure if that ends up at quite the same point
I'm aiming at. I'm a newbie whose methodology ,_at the
moment_, is driven more by desire to understand Linux than
to than using it.
I was comparing the version of "Debian Repository HOWTO "
at http://www.isotton.com/debian/docs/repository-howto/ with
the older version which is on debian.org. Initial readings
seemed the same. I didn't understand why one was labeled
"obsolete". So I started doing a sentence by sentence
comparison. That slowed me down enough to start
understanding what I was reading ;/ That and having the CD
in the drive and looking at the files as I was reading about
them.
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