Re: RESOLUTION --- Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > IIRC there was a limit on the number of loop devices created {8?}. > Is there any default limit now? That would be man losetup and https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt The former seems to tell no limitation. The latter lists "loopback

Re: RESOLUTION --- Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/15/2021 07:18 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: I don't grok loop devices. [...] Also the article I read evidently took advantage of "mount" being able to loop mount without the loop option being explicitly referenced. Yes. mount is smart enough to see that your

Re: RESOLUTION --- Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-15 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Richard Owlett wrote: > I don't grok loop devices. [...] > Also the article I read evidently took advantage of "mount" being able to > loop mount without the loop option being explicitly referenced. Yes. mount is smart enough to see that your "device" is a data file and that it has to use a

RESOLUTION --- Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-15 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/12/2021 02:05 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I've seen a reference to using the ISO file of DVDnn in a sources.list . I remember that it gets identified as being ISO9660 and labeled as trusted, But I can't find a detailed example. All I find are references to unpacking the iso to a directory

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > In practice, queuing up a few mount/umount/eject commands and then runnng > the apt-get install commands or whatever by using an up arrow command to > repeat wasn't a problem. How did you work around the tray loading bug ? The Linux kernel lost the ability to wait

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 05:34:43PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 06:53:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > My question: it does operate on the (already mounted) .iso image, right? > > Or does it do the (loopback and) mounting on its own? > > > No, it relies

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 06:53:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 03:47:34PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Hi, Andrew > > thanks for chiming in > > > If you _really_ want to have one .iso to mount - this is where the 16G .iso > > or the BluRay sized disks help -

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 03:47:34PM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Hi, Andrew thanks for chiming in > If you _really_ want to have one .iso to mount - this is where the 16G .iso > or the BluRay sized disks help - one image that holds a larger chunk of the > whole archive. Yes, one big .iso

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 03:32:31PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 06:42:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [...] > > > Somebody has written on the general topic but what I had seen was > > not in the debian.org hierarchy. What I had seen accommodated > > multiple

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread David Wright
On Thu 13 May 2021 at 10:03:37 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/13/2021 08:32 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 06:42:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > Somebody has written on the general topic but what I had seen was > > > not in the

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 10:03:37AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > It's _loop_ mounting of _each_ ISO I wish to avoid. Again, glad to be proven wrong. But /if/ the iso file system image is lying around as a file in a mounted file system, I don't see a way around a loop device to actually

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/13/2021 08:32 AM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 06:42:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] Somebody has written on the general topic but what I had seen was not in the debian.org hierarchy. What I had seen accommodated multiple ISO9660 DVD images in a single

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 06:42:57AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > Somebody has written on the general topic but what I had seen was > not in the debian.org hierarchy. What I had seen accommodated > multiple ISO9660 DVD images in a single directory without using loop > mounting. Once found

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/13/2021 05:42 AM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, tomas wrote: [1] https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#CD-ROM Richard Owlett wrote: But I have an iso file on a disk drive -- be it internal HDD or a USB flash drive. tomas wrote: And now this is for you: "You can use -d for the

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, tomas wrote: > > > [1] https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#CD-ROM Richard Owlett wrote: > > But I have an iso file on a disk drive -- be it internal HDD or a USB flash > > drive. tomas wrote: > And now this is for you: > "You can use -d for the directory of the CD-ROM mount point >or

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 04:35:38AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/12/2021 02:44 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > >This wiki [1] suggests using apt-cdrom to do the magic for you > >[1] https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList#CD-ROM [...] > But I have an iso file on a disk drive -- be it

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/12/2021 03:06 PM, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Wed, 12 May, 2021 at 14:05:59 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I've seen a reference to using the ISO file of DVDnn in a sources.list . I remember that it gets identified as being ISO9660 and labeled as trusted, But I can't find a detailed example. All

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 05/12/2021 02:44 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 02:05:59PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I've seen a reference to using the ISO file of DVDnn in a sources.list . I remember that it gets identified as being ISO9660 and labeled as trusted, But I can't find a detailed

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-12 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 12 May, 2021 at 14:05:59 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've seen a reference to using the ISO file of DVDnn in a sources.list . > I remember that it gets identified as being ISO9660 and labeled as trusted, > But I can't find a detailed example. All I find are references to unpacking > the

Re: How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-12 Thread tomas
On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 02:05:59PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I've seen a reference to using the ISO file of DVDnn in a sources.list . > I remember that it gets identified as being ISO9660 and labeled as > trusted, But I can't find a detailed example. All I find are > references to unpacking

How to reference xxxdvd1.iso in sources.list

2021-05-12 Thread Richard Owlett
I've seen a reference to using the ISO file of DVDnn in a sources.list . I remember that it gets identified as being ISO9660 and labeled as trusted, But I can't find a detailed example. All I find are references to unpacking the iso to a directory which is then loop mounted. That's not what