On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 03:32:31PM +0200, 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? > > Cheers > - t
If you _really_ want to have one .iso to mount - this is where the 16G .iso or the BluRay sized disks help - one image that holds a larger chunk of the whole archive. apt-cdrom will effectively read the index(es) off the .iso of what packages there are and will cache that. If you have multiple DVDs, it will prompt you to change them - so, actually, you could mount the DVD images in separate directories under /media as individual mount points and then run apt-cdrom to index them all with Tomas -d switch, as outlined above. For me - I find that a netinst - and internet bandwidth - is all that I need but I recognise that that's not everyone's cup of $BEVERAGE. All best, as ever, Andy C.
