Re: scripting a potato upgrade
Phillip,
I don't understand your cost analysis. Potato is not release yet, and as
far as I know, there aren't any commercial outlets for Potato CD's yet.
I don't think Official Potato CD's are available from anyone yet... which
is as it should be.
So what were you comparing your dialup costs to? I think you'd be stuck
doing an apt upgrade or downloading a ton of files and making your own
CD's with a CD burner, which would be pretty messy right now, anyway...
If you're ever looking for inexpensive Slink CD-ROM's,
http://www.cheapbytes.com makes a nice Official Debian distro that comes
in at a very low price.
On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote:
>
> A while ago I sort of got to grips with apt and decided to upgrade my
> system from Slink to Potato. Since I have only a 56K modem and pay for
> my call charges it was with some trepidation that I entered apt-get
> dist-upgrade just before going to bed one night. I had set a time-out on
> my ppp connection and woke up to find that I had been connected around
> four hours. Weighing up the cost of purchasing the CDs and four hours
> worth of telephone calls it was clear the ppp method had won. Since then
> I regularly to apt-get dist-uptdate to ensure I always have the latest
> packages.
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