> I wrote:
> > > How do you download the whole binary tree? In RH I simply downloaded the
> > > iso-images and then applied all subsequent upgrades. Debian seems to
> > > function differently; when I browsed an ftp mirror, I couldn't find the
> > > actual packages.
>
> Tzafrir Cohen:
> > (ISO images are of the installation, not of system)
>
> Does that mean that I can only install packages while connected to the net?
>
If you insists on the ISOs search for jidgo. You can search for it in
www.debian.org. URLs were also posted here a few weeks ago. I believe
you could find them in the list archive. Obviously you can also
download the debs (RPMs equivalent for a Debian system) while on the
net and installed them afterwards. However Debian integrated installing
and updating a system directly from the net very nicely. Even with a
modest net connectivity you might want to skip all the old methods and
go directly to the net one.
> > Do you have /tmp on a different partition?
>
> Actually, no. I symlinked /tmp and /usr/tmp to /var/tmp which is on a
> different partition.
>
> > /opt and /usr/local are the same: not part of the "formal" system, and
> > intended for extra packages. Although debian places some a few config
> > files in /usr/local
>
> But quite some flamers are upset at RH for putting everything in /usr/bin. In
> fact, a few months ago mosfet went beserk complaining about `ls /usr/bin|wc
> -l` returing a number greater than 1500. So I wondered whether debian guys
> were doing it differently.
1403 for my desktop which lacks KDE/GNOME desktop environment.
>
> Arie Folger
> --
> It is absurd to seek to give an account of the matter to a man
> who cannot himself give an account of anything; for insofar as
> he is already like this, such a man is no better than a vegetable.
> -- Book IV of Aristotle's Metaphysics
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