On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:03:46PM -0600, MARK wrote: > IMHO DEBIAN LINUX is the best. Red Hat is too hard to upgrade single packages > after an install. Micro$haft Winblows bites. > > I'm an old (40) DOS hacker so when I was turned on to LINUX by a network tech > I was very relieved (from the M$ stranglehold and thrilled (about OS > stability). > > I purchaced debian linux 2.2r from a web site (3 cds). At home I have a w95 > box > with a JUNO free email/web connection. JUNO has no linux client. At work I can > use the ADSL connection to download files and then ZIP100 them home. (or if > the files are less than 4MB I can email them to my JUNO account. A real > internet > connection is not something I can afford, at least not now. Would it be > possible > to tar all of the new/different packages in a realease point so that I could > download one file and untar them in some directory for use with apt-get > off-line?
Yes, you can do this.. There was something about this a month or two ago in either debian-user or debian-devel list. - Adam
