On 02/06/2016 11:06 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi list members, > > I have successfully installed stretch from a usb stick onto which I had > downloaded the latest amd64 weekly-build DVD-1.iso and other necessary > init files. > Well, after the install process had finished, I rebooted from harddisk and > everything worked, but when I now try to use apt to install more files > FROM THE DVD.iso on the stick (not over the network), it tells me to > insert the cdrom:[DEBIAN_TESTING...DVD-iso-1], even when the USB > stick is already inserted in the slot - no, apt wants a cdrom (and that's > what the source.list indicates: cdrom. > It's an iso-hybrid as you know, but I can't find a way to tell apt to use > this very same USB stick (with the named ISO) from which the installing > process had been carried out. > When I put different forms of identifying the USB stick into the > sources.list apt says something like "there is no driver for that device > installed" or "there is no release file" (when I put > file://var/lib/apt/lists directory) and does not proceed. But the > installer correctly used this USB stick. I can't figure out how to work > around that, or what's going wrong. Do you have an idea? > I read the install.txt from beginning to end, but I couldn't find any > hints on this issue. > > Thanks in advance. > > Stephan > > P.S. Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list. >
I would mount the .iso image and point the apt to the mount point: mount -o loop -t iso9660 /mnt/usb_stick/debian.iso /mnt/cdrom
