Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2016-08-14 Thread Richard Owlett
On 10/8/2012 11:42 AM, Curt wrote: On 2012-10-05, Richard Owlett wrote: To summarize: I effectively _HAVE_ the contents of a relevant repository on 8 physically discrete DVDs. I *REQUIRE* that content to reside on a single partition of a single disk in a form acceptable to apt-get. For reasons

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-09 Thread Richard Owlett
Curt wrote: On 2012-10-05, Richard Owlett wrote: To summarize: I effectively _HAVE_ the contents of a relevant repository on 8 physically discrete DVDs. I *REQUIRE* that content to reside on a single partition of a single disk in a form acceptable to apt-get. For reasons I'll not go into, any

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-08 Thread Curt
On 2012-10-05, Richard Owlett wrote: > To summarize: > > I effectively _HAVE_ the contents of a relevant repository > on 8 physically discrete DVDs. > I *REQUIRE* that content to reside on a single partition of > a single disk in a form acceptable to apt-get. > For reasons I'll not go into, any

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-06 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > songbird wrote: ... >>if anything just try to copy the first dvd and >> see what happens and what error messages come >> out of apt-get or synaptic and go from there. >> >>ls /dvd01 if you have the first dvd mounted >> to /dvd01 should give you the top directories >>

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-05 Thread Richard Owlett
songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: ... ages ago i used a straight copy from the DVDs for lenny to set up what sounds like what you want to do. get a copy of the DVDs onto a faster hard drive. wish i had perfect memory, but i think i just used a simple recursive copy cp -ra [src] [targ

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-05 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: ... ages ago i used a straight copy from the DVDs for lenny to set up what sounds like what you want to do. get a copy of the DVDs onto a faster hard drive. wish i had perfect memory, but i think i just used a simple recursive copy cp -ra [src] [target] if you have U

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-05 Thread Richard Owlett
Rob Owens wrote: On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 01:22:21PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Richard Owlett [121003 12:42]: My end goal is to search out a script that will place the contents of the 8 DVD set of Debian 6.0.5 on a hard drive in such a way that the hard disk can be accessed by apt-get.

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-03 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 01:22:21PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Richard Owlett [121003 12:42]: > > My end goal is to search out a script that will place the contents > > of the 8 DVD set of Debian 6.0.5 on a hard drive in such a way that > > the hard disk can be accessed by apt-get. > > Ha

Re: Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Richard Owlett [121003 12:42]: > My end goal is to search out a script that will place the contents > of the 8 DVD set of Debian 6.0.5 on a hard drive in such a way that > the hard disk can be accessed by apt-get. Have you looked at approx? Surely approx-import can import images mounted with t

Current user friendly documentation of Debian repository structure and use???

2012-10-03 Thread Richard Owlett
I went to http://www.debian.org/ and entered "repository" in the search box. 333 hits. The first was the only relevant hit. _*BUT*_ the page title declared as being *OBSOLETE* :< Link to search as performed: http://search.debian.org/cgi-bin/omega?DB=en&P=repository The first hit: http://www.de