On Sunday 23 December 2001 05:52 pm, Imre Vida wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 01:49:16PM -0700, Dan Owens wrote: > > Is there a way to make a cd from the apt cache of an installed system > > that can be used with the install floppies to install Debian? > > > > I would like to use the boot and root floppies to get started and then do > > the install from the cd instead of downloading from the internet. I have > > an installed sid system, with cache, and would like to make a cd of the > > cache for my brother, who doesn't have a fast internet connection. > > copy the files from/to /var/cache/apt/archives > pay attention that the database (apt-get update) > and the packages are in synchrony > you can get rid of old files with apt-get autoclean > before making the CDS > > imre
That makes sense, but what file is the database you refer to? I think this is what has hung me up on this method. Are you referring to one of the .bin files in /var/cache/apt or the package lists in /var/lib/apt/lists? Is there a special directory structure used on the cd? When I have tried using a cd made from the cache, I get a message that there is no package list and I don't know what list I would include or where it should be included. Thanks for helping. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Owens [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bigfork, MT. --------------------------------------------------------------------
