I wish to do custom Debian install on a machine *WITHOUT*:
1. functional mechanical CD/DVD drive.
2. without internet access.
One can purchase a flash drive containing ISO images of all installation
DVDs of the desired architecture. It is straight forward to do a default
install after copying dvd1.iso to a flash drive.
Resulting problems include:
1. undesired programs clutter machine (e.g. LibreOffice).
2. project critical software cannot be installed as Synaptic
asks for a non-existent DVD be inserted in a non-existent drive.
One vendor has a shell program which loop mounts the ISO files in such a
way that *IF* you have the purchased flash drive installed you can use
Synaptic.
The Debian documentation does not appear to describe how apt &/or
Synaptic can access ISO files on dedicated partition.
Are the instructions to create a "local repository" composed of
appropriate ISO files?
TIA
