Making update-manager use an ISO automagically

[Karl Goetz]

Rich Renomeron wrote:
> I really like the "new way" of upgrading the distribution to Dapper via 
> "update-manager -d <http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=14>," and hope to use 
> that method for deploying Dapper on my network next weekend.  However, 
> I'm pretty sure that world+dog+cat+ferret is going to be hitting the 
> Ubuntu archive servers the second the Dapper release announcement hits 
> the internet, and continue doing so for quite a while, which will make 
> the upgrading part painfully slow.
Very much :)
> 
> Since BitTorrent is a much better way for quickly distributing things to 
> world+dog simultaneously, I wonder if there's a way to make 
> update-manager use an ISO in conjunction with the repositories (since 
> not everything is on the CD) without having to do all that messy mucking 
> about with /etc/apt/sources.list.  While it's not too hard to pull it 
> off, why do manually what the computer can/should do for you?
> 
I suggest that you download the cd, and either use the synaptic "add 
repository" option to add the cdrom, or open a terminal and use 'sudo 
apt-cdrom add' (or my preferred option - edit the file directly :D). 
Then it should be in your sources.list. i haven't used update-manger 
though, so i dont know if it does Funny Stuff to your sources.list.
kk

> I suppose I could just wait a week or two for the traffic to die down, 
> but I'm too "Type A" for that.
> 
> Rich
> 
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Karl Goetz