Looking for APTonCD equivalent for Ubuntu Server 12.04

Question

Is there an equivalent of APTonCD for Ubuntu Server (12.04) edition ?
If not, can I use a local repository cread by APTonCD (using a Desktop edition) and use it from Ubuntu Server 12.04 edition ? If yes, how ?

Answer 1

I will expand this if you explain exactly what you need to do but to answer the question you asked, yes it is possible to use an image created by aptoncd with Ubuntu Server.

If you have access to a GUI Ubuntu Create the image file using the instructions here on your Desktop install.

A. If your server has a CD drive

1. Burn the image to a CD (you can do this using aptoncd) and put the CD in your server's drive.

2. Open a terminal and run

   sudo apt-cdrom add
   

3. Update your sources list

   sudo apt-get update
   

B. If your server has no CD drive

If you don't have a CD drive on your server, you will need to mount the image file and then add that.

1. Copy the image file (something like aptoncd-20140505-CD1.iso) to your server.

2. Mount the image somewhere

   sudo mkdir /media/foo
   sudo mount -o loop /path/to/aptoncd-20140505-CD1.iso /media/foo
   

3. Run apt-cdrom again but telling it not to attempt to detect the CD automatically, nor to mount it (-m) and specifying the mount point (-d) as /media/foo:

   sudo apt-cdrom --no-auto-detect -md /media/foo add
   

4. Update your sources list

   sudo apt-get update