dvd/cd repositories

[Derek Broughton]

bob davis wrote:

> Chris Lemire wrote:
>> I notice that Debian comes on 14 cds or 3~4 dvds. You get a minimal
>> install by default like Ubuntu. Afterwards, if you want to install
>> more software, synaptic or apt will say insert disk number such and
>> such. My friend has 28 k dial up with Ubuntu on his laptop. What I'd
>> like to do is create those dvds or cds for him that are fully loaded
>> with extra software including multiverse repositories. I don't mind
>> spending a couple of days downloading it all for him. I have 640 gb of
>> total hard drive space but not all unused and a FIOS connection that I
>> can use for downloading all the deb packages. How can I create those
>> extra disks for him, so that when he wants to install software, he
>> will be told to insert disk such and such?
>> 
> There has to be a command like
> wget all the repository paths in sources.list.

See apt-move, apt-mirror, debmirror and probably numerous others. :-)
-- 
derek