~ I get those "what are you really trying to do?" questions all the time. Let me start by explaining to you, why I do things in a certain way ~ I love live CDs and use them all the time. I carry one of them, my pen drive and/or my external micro drive almost everywhere in one of my pockets. I am not the kind of person that could be carrying a laptop around if I have to carry something I would rather carry a good book ~ live CDs actually mount "/" in "/ramdisk" (or similarly) so any work you do you may lose since it is not saved in an actual drive ~ I am trying to tax RAM the possibly least I can, because I usually have more than one long running program needing resources in my home computer(s) ~ When I get to some place with a free x86 seat (I teach), sometimes you can restart/reboot it, but sometimes you can not. When you can, usually you have no way of knowing which drives/partitions may correspond to your micro drive ~ I used RootDir as you suggested and did a few changes that were explicitly enough reported by apt-get, but then I got the following error: ~ E: Read error - read (21: Is a directory) ~ which is cryptic to me. I included a log of what I did bellow ~ How can I fix this error? ~ Thanks lbrtchx ~ # apt-get update -o RootDir=/media/sdb2/inst/sw/deb -o Dir::Etc::SourceList=/etc/apt/local00_sources.list Ign file: i386/ Release.gpg Ign file: i386/ Release Reading package lists... Error! E: Read error - read (21: Is a directory) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. ~ # cat /media/sdb2/inst/sw/deb/etc/apt/local00_sources.list deb file:/media/sdb2/inst/sw/deb/arc i386/ ~ # ls -l /media/sdb2/inst/sw/deb/arc/i386 total 412628 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93861 Jan 25 05:51 Packages.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 45730 Jan 8 17:32 acpid_1%3a2.0.0-2_i386.deb ... -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 75952 Dec 28 21:22 zlib1g_1%3a1.2.3.4.dfsg-3_i386.deb ~
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