Re: Apt-getable CD-ROMs

2000-10-23 Thread Jesse Goerz
Just wanted to add one more thing to this post that may help others trying to do the same thing. I ran man apt-move which led me to a couple of scripts that worked great for generating the packages.gz files necessary to make apt-getable cd-roms. (in case the program you want to backup and make ap

Re: Apt-getable CD-ROMs

2000-10-18 Thread Jesse Goerz
That was exactly what I was looking for. Thanks, Jesse On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Robb Kidd wrote: > Robb Kidd wrote: > > > > Jesse Goerz wrote: > > >[...] What I really want to do is > > > create "custom" CD's with the programs I use which aren't available with > > > the Debian o

Re: Apt-getable CD-ROMs

2000-10-18 Thread Robb Kidd
Robb Kidd wrote: > > Jesse Goerz wrote: > >[...] What I really want to do is > > create "custom" CD's with the programs I use which aren't available with > > the Debian official CD's. (I reinstall a lot because of all the messing > > around > > I do.) > ... I seem to recall

Re: Apt-getable CD-ROMs

2000-10-18 Thread Robb Kidd
Jesse Goerz wrote: >[...] What I really want to do is > create "custom" CD's with the programs I use which aren't available with > the Debian official CD's. (I reinstall a lot because of all the messing > around > I do.) Are you saying I can use the Pseudo Image Kit to creat

Re: Apt-getable CD-ROMs

2000-10-17 Thread Jesse Goerz
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, you wrote: > Jesse Goerz wrote: > > 1. I'm trying to create backup CD's that I can scan into my > > sources.list file just like the distribution set does. Does anyone > > know or have a source of information for this? > > You would use apt-cdrom for this. That designa

Re: Apt-getable CD-ROMs

2000-10-17 Thread Robb Kidd
Jesse Goerz wrote: > 1. I'm trying to create backup CD's that I can scan into my > sources.list file just like the distribution set does. Does anyone > know or have a source of information for this? You would use apt-cdrom for this. That designates the CDROMS as removable media to apt t