Ben Roberts wrote: > <snip> > > If you use apt to install from ftp, you can fool it into thinking it already > downloaded the packages: have your friend download all of them and burn them > to > CD, then just copy them all to /var/cache/apt/archives or something like that. > If you don't have enough space you can make a few decisions before getting to > dselect.
Hmmm.... well; the classic has a puny harddrive by todays standards. :( Please excuse the fumblings. I am new to Debian and the dpkg/deselect/ apt thing. OK; I'll put these all onto, say CDRWs, and then install using the floppy boot and root images dd'd from the CD onto floppies. Once I'm at that point, is there a way to use the CDs (as is) to install using dpselect? If necessary, I can install the base from floppies, too. However, it seems that there is a base2_2.tgz or some such thing in the appropriate directories on Debian mirrors. If I could use that from the CD that would save a lot of time, as opposed to putting 10 images onto floppies. I suppose, regardless of how I got to that point, I could move files in groups onto /var/cache/apt/archives. Are there going to be problems that I should be aware of? For example, what about resolving dependencies of the packages that I'm going to unceremoniously dump into this dir? Is there a reasonably painless way to resolve these? One final question. Is there a way to generate a list of everything I decided to install, and then use this to make a CD of just what I want? Is this something that apt puts into a log file somewhere, that can be parsed or viewed at a later time? This way I can burn a CDR and wipe my CDRWs and use them for the backup purposes they were bought for. =:) Thanks in advance, -- cheers, Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on Earth. Where are they hiding? -Cabaret Voltaire "Yashar"
