On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:00:41AM +1100, bob parker wrote: > Because I supply various Linuxes to members of my lug, I have quite a few iso > images on hand including the 7 for Woody r2, and soon I will have the 13 for > Sarge plus the dvd iso images. > > When I use apt-get install whatever it comes back and asks for cdrom #x to be > inserted. What I want to know is there some way I can divert this requirement > to the corresponding iso image mounted on /mnt via the loopback device?
Yip, that's my setup as my systems have no net access. Hence I can't look at the right now. Loopback mount(avoid spaces) and then add something like: /mnt/Debian-3.0/CD1/pool woody main contrib non-free I'd give the exact line but as I said I don't have it handy. Note that loop may only allow 8 mounts but that can be handled by a kernel boot parameter/module option (max_loop=256 IIRC). In fact I then export this to all my other systems with samba. BTW: you can't loopback from NTFS. Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
