Craig, > Only reason is that I have Debian stable on cd and am only > running a 56k > modem so a dist-upgrade will take me about a year (well not quite). > The other thing is that because I am still learning I tend to > stuff things up > rather regularly and it is a fairly simple matter to > reinstall rather than > reinstall and upgrade (maybe i should just stop being such a > wimp..hehe).
Once you have installed them once, you can copy the files in /var/cache/apt/archives. After the reinstalling you can copy them back and install them as normal. Easy. Later David Kirk
