Re: Suggestions Needed

[Rick Macdonald <rickm@vsl.com>]

Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:

> 
>  Here's what I did to get Slackware 3.0  (I just started looking at
> Debian this week.)
> 
> bash$ mkdir /home/ftp/pub/slakware
> bash$ cd /home/ftp/pub/slakware
> bash$ for f in a{1,2,3,4,5};do mkdir $f;cd $f;ncftp<site>:/<dir-\
> slakware>/$f/*;cd ..;done;ppp-off
> 
>  I did that for each set of disks, then re-installed an ELF system
> from that.  It took a while at 14.4; I started it before I left for
> school or before I went to bed.  In 3 days I got all of Slack 3.0.

I'm new to this list. Has anybody mentioned the mirror package in
this discussion? If your ppp conection is unstable just keep running it
until it finds nothing left to do.

-- 
...RickM...