> > 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. > > Just mirror the repository (rsync would probably be the way of > choice) somewhere on your filesystem and point apt.conf to that place.
I did that once. I copied the isos to the HD, mounted them with "-o loop", then I put a symlink to each one in /var/www, and then put an entry for each one of them in sources.list, and I could use apt to install from them. You need to install a web server for that. Maybe another method exists, this one is simple enough. Regards. -- Homepage : http://geocities.com/arhuaco The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. -- Richard Feynman.