Re: Installing onto laptop from desktop
Check out the manpage for apt-move; it lets you make
Debian mirrors using packages in your apt cache,
among other things.
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 02:16:24PM -0400, Harry Henry Gebel wrote:
> I have just upgraded my desktop to Debian Linux from Mandrake Linux. I did
> the installation by downloading base2_2.tgz and installing that, then
> downloading the rest of the packages I needed with apt-get and dselect over
> a 28.8kbps connection (the fastest I have available to me because I am
> located many miles from a telephone company central office). Now I have 600
> packages in /var/cache/apt/archives, and I would like to use base2_2.gz and
> these packages to install Debian on my laptop. I notice that apt gets
> numerous files that tell it where to go to get things; how do I make a set
> of these files pointing to my /var/cache/apt/archives, so I can point apt
> on my laptop to the package set on my desktop? (My laptop only has access to
> my home network not the internet.)
Rob
-Namodn-
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