How to get packages via a Windows box
I've installed the base Debian system as a dual with MS Windows.
I want to install X-Window from the Debian web site. The lab
where I'm 'working' has a DSL connection, however, I can only get
it to work with Windows. Currently, I'm downloading files via
IE to the Dos partition, rebooting to Linux and finishing the
install there. For small stuff, I can tolerate this. For
X-window, I need to do something better.
I've been trying to setup a network connection on the Linux side
via pppoe, but I have no support here and it looks like a dead
end.
I'm thinking of a Windows version of atp-get. If I had that, I
could bring down all the packages for X-window create a local
mirror on my dos partition and then run atp-get under Linux
this time the local mirror is
my source).
Has this been done before? Are there binaries I can grab? Do you
have any helpful suggestions?
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