On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 10:19:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am about to buy a 6GB HDD to supplement the two full 1.6GB HDDs I have, and > then I plan to load slink on my system. I have usually bought the CDs, but > the resellers I have seen on the net don't seem to include the non-free or > non-US, and besides, loading a portion of the total package (even if only the > non-free) takes up valuable archive space on my system. > > So, I am thinking about mirroring slink onto my system from ftp.debian.org, > but > I was wondering (a) how much drive space I can plan on devoting to the mirror, > (b) how much drive space I can plan on leaving open for future additions, and > (c) how much trouble it is to install a mirror and keep it up to date. > > (That is the other reason I was thinking of just mirroring this stuff -- I can > always count on my distribution being up to date that way.) Is there any > provision for automatically installing upgraded packages, or of informing me > of which packages have been upgraded? > > Steven C. Martin > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
Sounds like more trouble that it is work. Slink packages (usually) don't change, because they are the stable distribution. Right now, packages in unstable are changing. I use apt-get in the apt package to do what you want to do, keep my system up to date. To install a package: use "apt-get install packagename" and it will go to the Internet, to a CD-ROM, whatever, to download and install the package. To update your list of packages (I use cron to do this every night), use "apt-get update" To install all upgrades, use "apt-get dist-upgrade". -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
