RichardA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a Mandrake user hoping to trade up. As such, I expect to break my > install beyond my capacity to fix it at least a few times. > Does it matter that I upgrade from stable to unstable, and pull many > packages from the server, each time? Is there a (n easy) way to use a > local cache?
I've never worried about it terribly. It probably is reasonably important that you find a local mirror; there's a list at http://www.debian.org/mirrors/list. If you were configuring dozens of machines at once you might find it more convenient to set of a local mirror of the Debian archive, or use something like a Squid caching proxy. But for one machine that you'll install a few times, it's probably more trouble than it's worth. (FWIW, my impression has been that people rarely need to install the world multiple times on the same machine. If you're really set on going straight to unstable, you also might consider testing the debian-installer release candidate, though I don't have a pointer to it handy at the moment.) > Once up and running, how often should I update? Every night? I generally update my unstable machines daily, yeah, for both the latest features and the latest bugs. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
