On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:10:16AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:54:39AM -0700, Edward C Brunelle Jr wrote: > > I bought the binary and source CDs for Woody and now have them, 14 CDs in > > all. I know there are multiple mirrors but I want to create a very-local > > mirror using these CDs > > > > My problem is that the debian machine has no CD drive on it normally. I > > kludged one on to make the initial installation but I have to remove it. I > > have a WinXP box with ALL sorts of disk space and AnonFtp and IIS running on > > it. I would like to put the CDs onto the WinXP box and point apt to it > > instead of using apt-cdrom on the Debian box. I'm willing to use > > security.debian.org to grab updates, etc. > > > > My question is how do I set this up? Create a directory called > > d:\debian\binary and d:\debian\source and copy each of the respective > > source/binaries CDs into them? Create a d:\debian and copy everything > > (binary/source) into it? It looks like there is some duplication. How do I > > set up so I have indices for the entire binary and source repository? What > > do I set up as the address in apt to get it to work? > > > I'm working on a similar problem. In my case I want to put the data on a hard > disk on a Woody machine and access it via nfs. But I think the answer to one > of your questions is the same: > 1. refer to Oohara Yuuma email of 5Aug'02 on this list > 2. make an entry in your sources.list for each CD copy, place these entries > before the ones that refer to stuff on the web > 3. don't worry about merging the info. apt-get update does that internally. > > I'm in the process of setting this up, so I may discover some error in what > I have said, but not about looking at Oohara's email. That is good info. >
Responding to my own post with an issue. Now I tried it, and it works nicely. On 5Aug Oohara wrote: If you have an official CD, it already has Packages.gz (or Sources.gz), so you don't need apt-ftparchive . If you copied the CD to /something/archive , the apt line will be deb file:/something/archive woody contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main Replace "deb" with "deb-src" for the source CD. Remove the non-US part if your CD is the US version. ---------- I already have an archive containing various other stuff that I want on my bg4 disk, so I added to it with: # cd /bg4/archive # mkdir wdycds # cd wdycds # mkdir bin1 bin2 bin3 bin4 bin5 bin6 bin7 and for each of the binary cds I did # mount /cdrom # cp -Rv /cdrom/* binN/ #where N=1..7 # umount /cdrom and I added to the front of /etc/apt/sources.list, seven lines of the form deb file:/bg4/archive/wdycds/binN woody contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main My sources.list already contained a full set of seven deb cdrom: entries and a standard set of deb http://... entries. When I did a trial install of a package, there was only hard disk activity. No CD request, or diald activity. Very nice! -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
