2009/5/18 Nuno Magalhães <[email protected]> > > My question is: can I fool apt in order to avoid burning dvd-rw each > week? > > Hopefully yes, what a waste!!! I only see the cd stuff in sources.list > after the install... then i delete it. You can surely loopmount iso > images... won't they have a device attached? Maybe input that device > to apt?... Dunno...
tried once when I was on lenny/testing but with no success... I can try again and post error messages > > How about making a local mirror? Downloading stuff do a directory and > sharing it... that way your local network can access that particular > machine instead of the offsite regular Debian repos. > I know this works, with one machine (56k modem) I used to do apt-get --print-uris in order to dowload necessary packages at work with a fast connection. The problem with one of these 3 boxes I am referring to is that they are really faraway from any network/phone cable... it lives in a wine cellar (cantina in italian). regards -r
