"Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, > I'm showing 3 days download of potato. Instead I'm doing a recursive > ftp get of debian/dists/potato/ on http.us.debian.org.
This may, or may not, work. Depends on your ftp client and what ftp server you're using. The trouble is that some of the stuff in potato is linked to stuff in slink. Now that potato is frozen this may not be the case, but it certainly was a couple of months ago. Also, be aware that you're downloading debian for every architecture by doing a recursive get of /debian/dists/potato. That means sparc, i386, alpha, m68k, powerpc, etc. If you've got the disk space to handle it then it's not a problem. > Once I get this silly thing downloaded to my shell, I can ftp it to > my office and take it home on a zip disk. Zip disk? How big are those things now? I'm not convinced you'll be able to get the whole potato distribution on a single zip disk. I just checked my local mirror, it's an i386 only mirror, and it's over 2GB. You're downloading potato for all architectures so I imagine it'll be significantly larger. > Once I get the "potato" directory restored on my Linux box, what's > the best way to put it on my machine and make it available so I can > do my upgrade? just put a "file /path/to/potato potato main" in > /etc/apt/source.list and then do a dist-upgrade or what? Can > someone give me a step by step HOWTO in 10 easy steps type deal? It's pretty easy. A local mirror is treated exactly the same as a remote one. You just need to add the appropriate line(s) to /etc/apt/sources.list. For the US i386 version of potato the line is: deb file:/usr/local/PC/Debian-Mirror/debian frozen main contrib non-free Of course your path will likely be different, but you get the idea. Also, I think you can use "potato" in place of "frozen", but I know the above line works. In either case you'll want to link frozen to potato after you finish the ftp, like % ln -s potato frozen After you've added the line to /etc/apt/sources.list you simply do the standard: % apt-get update % apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade if you're upgradding from an older distribution) Be aware that there are some problems in frozen right now. Personally, I'm waiting to do an upgrade of my potato system until they're resolved. Good luck, Gary
