Re: Storing whole sarge disto on a HD partition?

From: Hugo Vanwoerkom (hvw59601_at_care2.com)
Date: 09/30/05

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Date:  Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:28:17 -0500

    Scott Fitzgerald wrote:
    > I'm a dial up user who purchased sarge on a 14 cd set.
    >
    > I'm buying a laptop and was wondering, is there a faq or howto anyplace on
    > copying the whole distribution to a partition on a HD? It would be great
    > to be away from home, and if a package is recommended to me to just be able
    > to log into root and run apt-get while on the road.

    I do that.
    1. use mkisofs to create an iso file for each of the 14 cd's
    2. mount xxx.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/Debian3.1/CD1
    ...

    Note you have to create sufficient loop devices to mount all 14:
    rmmod loop
    modprobe loop max_loop=14
    C=8; for C in `seq 8 14`; do mknod /dev/loop$C b 7 $C; done

    It really is not necessary to mount all 14: I have only gotten to need
    10 CD's. I have 9 mounted and I run synaptic on that.

    Adjust your sourcelist:
    deb file:/mnt/Debian3.1/CD1/debian sarge main contrib
    ...

    run apt-get update

    Makes installing anything a breeze: use it all the time.
    In fact I still run off 14 CD's I bought when Sarge was still testing.
    Where I live they won't deliver the 14 CD's.

    HTH
    H 

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