Check out the manpage for apt-move; it lets you make Debian mirrors using packages in your apt cache, among other things.
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 02:16:24PM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: > I have just upgraded my desktop to Debian Linux from Mandrake Linux. I did > the installation by downloading base2_2.tgz and installing that, then > downloading the rest of the packages I needed with apt-get and dselect over > a 28.8kbps connection (the fastest I have available to me because I am > located many miles from a telephone company central office). Now I have 600 > packages in /var/cache/apt/archives, and I would like to use base2_2.gz and > these packages to install Debian on my laptop. I notice that apt gets > numerous files that tell it where to go to get things; how do I make a set > of these files pointing to my /var/cache/apt/archives, so I can point apt > on my laptop to the package set on my desktop? (My laptop only has access to > my home network not the internet.) Rob -Namodn-
