Re: Bug#93612: Support for new archive structure

[Filip Van Raemdonck]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:14:30PM +0000, Philip Charles wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 
> > 
> > > > you can tell it to read Packages.cd directly
> >  
> > > I don't want that, it's a hack. :)
> > 
> > No more than all the other ugly things that have been suggested, and this
> > only affects the 3 people silly enough to loopback mount ISO's and try to
> > use APT on them.
> 
> I have used this myself.  It is a good way to test an image.  It is also
> used by people who have borrowed CDs and do not have a burner.
> 
I can add another `weirdo' method of using cds... I have a cdrom-less
workstation that can nfs mount a server cdrom drive.

I tried to apt-cdrom add the 3cd potato set with the nfs mount, worked great,
but when I try to install a package apt-get fails to recognize the cd - it
keeps asking for it whether the nfs share has be pre-mounted on the
workstation or not.

Regards,

Filip

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