Hans wrote:
I have a set of 13 CDs with the complete testing archive. How can I moveall the debs on them to one big archive on my harddrive, and change the sources in apt.sources to that archive so that I don'thave to insert CD after CD when installing/upgrading? --Hans
You have a moving target ofcourse. It changes every Saturday night, until sarge becomes stable. This Saturday has the latest installer on it which you missed because you said you already have the CD's, or did you jigdo them?
You: mount /hdb10/sarge-i386-1.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/Debian3.1/CD1 mount /hdb10/sarge-i386-2.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/Debian3.1/CD2 mount /hdb1/sarge-i386-3.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/Debian3.1/CD3 mount /hdb10/sarge-i386-4.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/Debian3.1/CD4 mount /hdb1/sarge-i386-5.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/Debian3.1/CD5 mount /hdb10/sarge-i386-6.iso -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/Debian3.1/CD6 ... in your sources.list: deb file:/mnt/Debian3.1/CD1/debian sarge main contrib deb file:/mnt/Debian3.1/CD2/debian sarge main contrib deb file:/mnt/Debian3.1/CD3/debian sarge main contrib deb file:/mnt/Debian3.1/CD4/debian sarge main contrib deb file:/mnt/Debian3.1/CD5/debian sarge main contrib deb file:/mnt/Debian3.1/CD6/debian sarge main contrib ...but if you loopmount more than 8 (?) then you have to set a kernel parameter to be able to do so. This was discussed in this list and I forget the kernel parameter.
H.