On 21-Aug-2000 Jeffrey Austen wrote: > How do I upgrade from Slink to Potato on a networked system with a small > hard disk? I am using apt-get to upgrade and there is not enough room in > /var/cache/apt/archives to download all the upgrade files at once. Is there > a way to upgrade in multiple steps so that I don't have to download all of > the packages at once? Apt-get tells me that there are 130 packages to be > upgraded plus 43 new.
options: nfs mount a bigger drive (-: if /home or some other partition is big enough, point /var/cache/apt there use a public nfs mirror (yes, they do exist) submit a bug that apt handle this case better (or if there is a bug, send more info)