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
