On Wed, 17 Mar 2004 07:44, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:00:41AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > > Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few > > iso images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the > > 13 for Sarge plus the dvd iso images. > > > > When I use apt-get install whatever it comes back and asks for cdrom #x > > to be inserted. What I want to know is there some way I can divert this > > requirement to the corresponding iso image mounted on /mnt via the > > loopback device? > > If you're loopback-mounting individual isos as required, I think you > can just switch to another VC and symlink /dev/cdrom to the mounted > image. If you've got them mounted all the time, you can stick deb file: > statements in /etc/apt/sources.list pointed at the mounted images. > (Can't remember the syntax off the top of my head but a combination of > man sources.list and experimentation should get you there :-) )
So far my experimenting + man sources.list has done no good at all. I'll try your first idea if I have to, but I made a tiny script to take care of the mounting and unmounting of the 7 isos so I'd like to get it going if I could. The examples on the man page for using file: go nowhere. Cheers Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
