On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 16:56, you wrote:
> 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

Thanks David

I think that will be a plan of attack for an upgrade to testing, as I have a 
cdrw installed.... hmm my modem may be busy this weekend...

Craig

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