Re: scripting a potato upgrade

1999-07-31 Thread Nathan Duehr
Hi Mark, You're right, I'm spoiled with inexpensive net access. I didn't realize that companies were offering ftp mirror snapshots on CD across the pond because of the high price of connectivity to download files. I've been working for telecommunication companies for almost the last 10 years, s

Re: scripting a potato upgrade

1999-07-31 Thread Mark Brown
On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 03:48:35AM -0600, Nathan Duehr wrote: > I don't understand your cost analysis. Potato is not release yet, and as > far as I know, there aren't any commercial outlets for Potato CD's yet. > I don't think Official Potato CD's are available from anyone yet... which > is as i

Re: scripting a potato upgrade

1999-07-31 Thread Phillip Deackes
Nathan Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phillip, > > I don't understand your cost analysis. Potato is not release yet, and > as > far as I know, there aren't any commercial outlets for Potato CD's > yet. > I don't think Official Potato CD's are available from anyone yet... > which > is as it

Re: scripting a potato upgrade

1999-07-31 Thread Nathan Duehr
Phillip, I don't understand your cost analysis. Potato is not release yet, and as far as I know, there aren't any commercial outlets for Potato CD's yet. I don't think Official Potato CD's are available from anyone yet... which is as it should be. So what were you comparing your dialup costs t

Re: scripting a potato upgrade

1999-07-31 Thread Phillip Deackes
Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Why not use APT? Here's my /etc/apt/sources.list: > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main > non-US/contrib n > on-US/non-free > > To upgrade: "apt-get updat

Re: scripting a potato upgrade

1999-07-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 03:11:33PM -0600, Cheshire wrote: > Hey all, I'm in the process of grabbing the lib/base/admin and a few > other dirs of files for a potato upgrade from slink. By nature of > dependancies, it can take a few times through dpkg -i to get everything > installed properly and I w

scripting a potato upgrade

1999-07-30 Thread Cheshire
Hey all, I'm in the process of grabbing the lib/base/admin and a few other dirs of files for a potato upgrade from slink. By nature of dependancies, it can take a few times through dpkg -i to get everything installed properly and I was thinking of scripting the process but I've never really written