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Re: Problems installing from flash drive.

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That works.
Your choice of directory names in the path to the files extracted from 
each ISO broke my current mental logjam.

Thanks


On 02/05/2021 10:21 AM, Jeremy Andrews wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> Here's what I would probably do:
> 
> - create directories on your USB or partition for each of the DVDs
> - extract each ISO, and place the contents in the directories
> - if using a separate partition, mount it in your fstab at a location 
> such as /mnt/deb, or if using a USB, just make sure to always mount it 
> at the same location when you want to install something
> 
> Then you can add a line such as this to your APT sources:
> deb [trusted=yes] file:///mnt/deb/DVD1/ buster main
> deb [trusted=yes] file:///mnt/deb/DVD2/ buster main
> deb [trusted=yes] file:///mnt/deb/DVD3/ buster main
> 
> Now whenever you want to install something, you shouldn't have to worry 
> about which DVD it was on, APT should just automatically find it.
> 
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> On Fri, 5 Feb 2021 at 09:55, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net 
> <mailto:rowlett@cloud85.net>> wrote:
> 
>     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
> 
> 

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Problems installing from flash drive. Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-05 16:00 +0100
  Re: Problems installing from flash drive. Jeremy Andrews <thejeremy.net@gmail.com> - 2021-02-05 17:30 +0100
    Re: Problems installing from flash drive. Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-06 15:20 +0100
      Re: Problems installing from flash drive. songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-02-07 19:30 +0100
  Re: Problems installing from flash drive. "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-02-05 18:20 +0100
    Re: Problems installing from flash drive. Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-02-05 18:30 +0100
  Re: Problems installing from flash drive. songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-02-05 20:10 +0100
    Re: Problems installing from flash drive. Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-02-06 15:30 +0100
  Re: Problems installing from flash drive. Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2021-02-05 22:20 +0100

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