apt-cdrom does NOT work this way.  It keeps insisting that I mount a
physical CDROM, even when the image is mounted, even when I passed -m
and -d /mnt/ubu910 to apt-cdrom add.  It's just broken for use with ISO
images.

And if you leave an apt-cdrom entry in /etc/apt/sources.list, it screws
up all possibility of using apt-get.  It insists on getting everything
from the CDROM, and when you don't have a CDROM, it doesn't just go on
and use the network -- it keeps looping, insisting that you mount a
CDROM.

Maybe bandwidth is free for Canonical, but if it isn't, I really
recommend fixing this stuff, so that people can just install 95% of the
packages from the DVD image that they already have, without having to
suck the identical package over the Internet.

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Ubiquity should put install image onto target disk for apt's use
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/455167
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