Steven downing wrote:
>
> Unfortunately I figure this would mean trolling through the debian archive
>directories to find all the dependencies needed for a package (source or binary) with
>a Windows ftp client and then finding the required number of floppies to transfer it
>all across. For things like task-xwindows-complete (or even core) this is pretty
>onerous, and I need to go to xfree4.0.1 for the new nvidia drivers, which is why I
>was looking for a cd, as well as the upgrade you mentioned.
> Thanks for the suggestion though...
> I love the Debian way, but without net connection or a burner its a little harder to
>keep up to date.
Sounds like you need an ethernet connection between your connected MS
box and your debian box. Better still, make the debian box the connected
one, and use ip-masquerading for the MS box (still need that ethernet
connection though).
If you at least want to get modutils-2.3.20 working, it would be useful
for you to know that you won't have to download any extra packages from
unstable to get it to compile and install.
Matthew
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