On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 08:06:23PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > I'm going from Potato -> Sid (over and over, to learn about installing). > I'm using the diskette boot method and then a network install. > > Boot, install Potato base system.
If you want to cheat, go to console and edit sources.list to start with unstable without installing packages from stable. I used to do it. ALT-F2 is your friend. > apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade > > update sources.list and repeat for Woody, and then for Sid. > > Seems to work, but I'm not sure if that's the "right" or fastest path to > Sid or not. Set up proxy on your net. I do this with squid. Or NFS mount/copy any deb already downloaded to /var/cache/apt/archives then it will not download. So I heard. > I'll be doing this again on another machine. Is there a way to use the > .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives for a new install to save the network > time? Yep. apt, I heard, will not download files already downloaded. Maybe you need to run apt-get update? I think I did this few times but not sure. squid gives speed up for all package activity transparently. Less hassle. > I looked at using "deb file:" in sources.list, but that doesn't seem right. No -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, GnuPG-key: 1024D/D5DE453D Visit Debian reference http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/quick-reference/ There are 6 files: index.{en|fr|it}.html quick-reference.{en|fr|it}.txt I welcome your constructive criticisms and corrections.
