Re: Alternative to DEBIAN-CD

2002-04-20 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote: begin Daniel Mashao quotation: messages (if they were error messages at all :) ). All I want is a program that will take the address of the mirror site, the dist I want, and say get woody for me. Have the program get it. Simple. So are

Re: Alternative to DEBIAN-CD

2002-04-17 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Daniel Mashao quotation: messages (if they were error messages at all :) ). All I want is a program that will take the address of the mirror site, the dist I want, and say get woody for me. Have the program get it. Simple. So are there any alternatives to debian-cd? If that's all

Re: Alternative to DEBIAN-CD

2002-04-17 Thread Bob Underwood
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 13:01, Daniel Mashao wrote: I find debian-cd complicate and I cannot find the reason why it should be. All I want is to go to my usual mirror site and get woody distribution files and write them to a cd so that I can go home and update my computer to woody. 'potato' is

Re: Alternative to DEBIAN-CD

2002-04-17 Thread ben
On Tuesday 16 April 2002 04:35 pm, Shawn McMahon wrote: begin Daniel Mashao quotation: messages (if they were error messages at all :) ). All I want is a program that will take the address of the mirror site, the dist I want, and say get woody for me. Have the program get it. Simple.

Re: Alternative to DEBIAN-CD

2002-04-17 Thread David Bell
I find this works quite well, but, the version of apt from Woody or Sid must be used. On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 00:10, ben wrote: apt-get -t testing package name, or have i missed the gist of this? ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Alternative to DEBIAN-CD

2002-04-16 Thread Daniel Mashao
I find debian-cd complicate and I cannot find the reason why it should be. All I want is to go to my usual mirror site and get woody distribution files and write them to a cd so that I can go home and update my computer to woody. 'potato' is just plain old - released in 2000, etc. I have a scanner