Together, these DVD ISOs constitute the entire official release of Debian 6 Squeeze (10th update). When you installed it connected to the Internet back then, you only needed a small installation media because the missing packages were downloaded over the network. Since it is now impossible to securely install it over the internet, you need a local copy of the repository. I simply copied the first two ISOs in my example, but you need all the ISOs if you want the full distribution.On the Debian archive there were 10 disks for squeeze 6.10, I installed disk 1, and you specify using disk 1 and 2 as apt sources, what exactly are these dvd files, and when you put the 10 together do they collectively make up most of the apt sources of that time, or are they slightly different versions which have preloaded different packages?
The first CD contains the most important packages (same for the DVD but with more packages). It allows at least a minimal installation with the most important packages for a working base system.
Debian was always designed to be installable without a network. You burned all the DVDs, used apt-cdrom to register them, and apt asked you for the DVD it needed to install a package. When there are many dependencies, this may require changing DVDs multiple times. Copying ISOs locally avoids this.
Statistics: Posted by fabien — 2024-05-06 14:51