On Fri 31 May 2019 at 08:30:35 -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > With the first DVD of Debian 9.8.0 I did: > > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=dvd.iso bs=4M > > I edited sources.list to read > > deb file:///home/richard/dvd.iso stretch main contrib trusted=yes > > > > When running Synaptic's > > Edit->Reload Package Information > > I receive an error message: > > > The repository 'file:/home/richard/dvd.iso stretch Release' > > > does not have a Release file. > > > > What is the problem? > > The problem is that the .iso is not a mounted filesystem.
Indeed. > You could: > > $ mkdir /home/richard/dvdmount > $ sudo mount /home/richard/dvd.iso /home/richard/dvdmount That command leaves users without root privileges out in the cold. udevil is one remedy on the command line to stop them shivering. Along the same lines - I imagine a modern DE can mount an ISO for a user without the need for her to become root. -- Brian.
