On Thu 13 May 2021 at 10:03:37 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/13/2021 08:32 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 06:42:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Somebody has written on the general topic but what I had seen was > > > not in the debian.org hierarchy. What I had seen accommodated > > > multiple ISO9660 DVD images in a single directory without using loop > > > mounting. Once found I'd like to see it reference in Section 4.3 of > > > "Debian GNU/Linux Installation Guide". > > > > Hm. There are ways to access iso9660 without mounting it > > (libiso9660, for example), but I don't think apt follows > > that path (glad to learn something new). > > > > Is there any special reason you want to avoid mounting? > > > It's _loop_ mounting of _each_ ISO I wish to avoid. > > What I had seen had the general for in fstab of > > /dev/hdb5 /mydvds ISO9660 defaults 1 1 > > and each iso of a dvd had its own line in sources.list *IIRC*
As was pointed out in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/11/msg00422.html this comes up again and again, as in https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/05/msg01463.html (Second anniversary celebrations imminent.) That thread might make a good starting point. Disclaimer: I don't know what the OP has seen that we're all supposed to look for, and cite in the IG. Cheers, David.
