On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 2:27 PM, andrew mcelroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Douglass Clem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Happy release day! >> >> Anyways, I have this computer lab of 12 computers running Ubuntu Hardy. I >> plan on installing apt-cache on the server prior to upgrading the lab, to >> greatly decrease my connection's overhead. I know I should probably wait >> until the flood is over sometime next week, but for some reason I like the >> idea of a challenge. I have the i386 alternate CD, downloaded via >> bittorrent. Any ideas on how to use the packages from the iso to populate >> the cache? >> > > Critch will know more about this then I will. I know you can add cdrom > discs as a source in /etc/apt/sources.list. > I think you should be able to add local directories. If you can do > that, then you could mount the iso: > > #mount /path/and/file-name.iso /mnt/repo > and try adding /mnt/repo
EDIT: try something to the effect of in sources.list: deb file:/mnt/repo main I would think that you could add whichever type of repository you care to. For instance non-free to that list. If I recall correctly that should be the correct syntax. Andrew McElroy > I hope that helps. > Andrew McElroy > >> Douglass Clem >> crashsystems.net >> Public Key: http://crashsystems.net/pubkey.asc >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
