On Thu 26 Apr 2018 at 15:43:32 (-0400), Henning Follmann wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 08:02:38PM +0200, deloptes wrote: > > 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 > > > > I am no expert on the install ISO images but if I understand correctly > there is a "debian" directory on it. So I guess: > debootstrap [OPTION...] stable /mypath/to/target/installation > file:///DVD1/debian > > however just hope that the current DVD is also "stable"
I haven't used a full CD/DVD for years, only netinst, so I'm reduced to guessing like everyone else here. My guess is a simple file:///media/cdrom0/ If the usual link is there, then file:///media/cdrom/ would be as good. Justifications: netinst has top level directories like .disk/, dists/ and pool/, and a README.html file which corresponds to what's outlined at the start of https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/ The build log for the 14 disk set at https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/log/20180310/ contains lines like these three: libisofs: WARNING : Cannot add /debian to Joliet tree. Symlinks can only be added to a Rock Ridge tree. libisofs: WARNING : Cannot add /dists/stable to Joliet tree. Symlinks can only be added to a Rock Ridge tree. libisofs: WARNING : File "/pool/main/g/golang-github-shurcool-sanitized-anchor-name/golang-github-shurcool-sanitized-anchor-name-dev_0.0~git20160918.0.1dba4b3-1_all.deb" can't be added to Joliet tree, because its path length is larger than 240 which imply that pool is top-level, and that debian is a symlink which would almost certainly point to ./ and likewise dists/stable would point to dists/stretch (but netinst doesn't bother with these symlinks). Cheers, David.
