Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 12:06:17AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > OK, let me deal with that. The best way to do it would be as follows. You > would buy the first set of CDs/DVDs from a vendor. So if it were for Sarge > 3.1r0, then you would use jidgo to bootstrap to new CD images for Sa

Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-09 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install. Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 17:03:51 -0800 On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:42:20AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > >From:

Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:42:20AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > >why are you not just pulling packages from the net? > > I could do it, but I prefer using the DVDs. My idea is to get to a state > where I bootstrap download DVD images using jigdo and thus minimise the > load on the debi

Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-07 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:16:24AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > Also I managed to specify the DVD with apt-cdrom -d/media/cdrom1 add (I > think it was cdrom1) and it then read in the DVD images for Sarge 3.1 r4 > and upgraded everything and inhaled all the packages

Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:42:20AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > >From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >Subject: Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install. > >Date: Thu, 7 Dec 20

Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-07 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install. Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 16:28:39 -0800 On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:16:24AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > But maybe there is some

Re: trying to combine apt-cdrom and apt-get install.....

2006-12-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:16:24AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > But maybe there is some smart way to combine the apt-cdrom -d/media/cdrom1 > stuff with apt-get install so that I can specify the DVD drive. > why are you not just pulling packages from the net? I realise that may be th