Richard Owlett wrote: ... ages ago i used a straight copy from the DVDs for lenny to set up what sounds like what you want to do. get a copy of the DVDs onto a faster hard drive.
wish i had perfect memory, but i think i just used a simple recursive copy cp -ra [src] [target] if you have USB 3 this should be faster than what i went through. i'm not sure if i had to link some files/directories after that copy to get apt-get and synaptic to be happy, but it did work and i used those copies until squeeze hit testing. i had entries in /etc/apt/sources.list that looked like: deb file:/mb/debian/lenny/cdrom01/ lenny contrib main deb file:/mb/debian/lenny/cdrom02/ lenny contrib main deb file:/mb/debian/lenny/cdrom03/ lenny contrib main deb file:/mb/debian/lenny/cdrom04/ lenny contrib main deb file:/mb/debian/lenny/cdrom05/ lenny contrib main i haven't had to do anything like this since then so i'm not sure if it would work for squeeze/wheezy. you may need an entry in /etc/apt/apt.conf that looks like: APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated "true"; to avoid having to set up authentication stuff... [don't run normally with this option set] if anything just try to copy the first dvd and see what happens and what error messages come out of apt-get or synaptic and go from there. ls /dvd01 if you have the first dvd mounted to /dvd01 should give you the top directories and then you can look further down in from there to see how it looks. songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8qh4k9-qmm....@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de
