Henning Follmann wrote: > Happy to read the man page to you buddy. > > > -H
while I can understand your feeling quite well, I had to teach myself either to ignore affecting questions or to answer for the sake of the answer. sometimes it is really frustrating how one can not understand obvious things, however not all are same age, have same background or level of intelligence. its better you give example in such case debootstrap [OPTION...] stable /mypath/to/target/installation file:///DVD1 this is how I understand it, correct if I'm wrong regards