Leopold Palomo-Avellaneda wrote: > Ok. I don't have a good internet connection at home. I usually > download a dvd at university and after install it at home. How can I > do something similar with amd64? I think the apt-zip package may be useful here. Download what you want while on the high speed connection and then "sneaker-net" them to your offline machine. That assumes you can bootstrap a minimum system going by some method enough to support apt-zip. apt-cache show apt-zip If you already have a Debian system you can get a list of packages that you have installed there with dpkg. I would probably start there and that would get you everything you needed as a first pass. dpkg --get-selections | awk '$NF=="install"{print$1}' > I have thought make a mirror in one machine. After make a big > tar.gz, split it in severals dvds, bring them to home, copy to the > hd, join all the split files, untar it to have a mirror, and then > install it, but ...... The entire amd64 archive is 18 GB! A binary only depot is 8.8 GB. So you could fit the entire depot on two DVDs. S DVD holds 4.7 GB. A dual layer DVD holds 8.5 GB so you could trim some things that you know you don't want and probably get it to fit. Bob
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