Re: sourcing the new install
> Sounds like more trouble that it is work. Slink packages (usually) don't change,
> because they are the stable distribution. Right now, packages in unstable are
> changing. I use apt-get in the apt package to do what you want to do,
> keep my system up to date.
>
One thing I was hoping to avoid...I haven't seen slink/apt yet, but I am aware
that it will install from multiple CD's...under the previous release, I had
copied the binaries of Contrib/Non-Free/Non-US to my hard drive, left the i386
CD in the tray, and told dselect that I was installing from the hard drive.
Then, I could tell dselect the paths to each of the sets of packages, and it
installed all without my having to change CD's (which the previous release
wouldn't do, anyway).
Will I be able to get a Non-Free and Non-US CD, and will apt do the multiple
install from them? Or, if not, how do I make apt aware of where I am keeping
those sets of files?
Steven C. Martin
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