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Re: Problems installing from flash drive.

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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> 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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