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
Have you looked at apt-move perchance? I ended up finding out about it
AFTER I had already written a few Perl scripts to locally mirror sid for
me (and had download about 2 GB of data), but I'm sure it could prove
useful to you if you haven't gone to these extremes yet. :) (I keep 3
computers updat
I have also had similar thoughts. One solution is to nfs mount
/var/cache/apt/archives from the first machine as
/var/cache/apt/archives on the second machine. Then when apt checks for
a package in its archives it finds it already there, and you only need
to download each .deb once for each machi
I'm sure this is a FAQ, so URLs are welcome.
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.
apt-get update / apt-get dist-upgrade
update sources.list and repeat for Woody, a
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