RE: How to upgrade to Potato via network with small hard disk
On 21-Aug-2000 Jeffrey Austen wrote:
> How do I upgrade from Slink to Potato on a networked system with a small
> hard disk? I am using apt-get to upgrade and there is not enough room in
> /var/cache/apt/archives to download all the upgrade files at once. Is there
> a way to upgrade in multiple steps so that I don't have to download all of
> the packages at once? Apt-get tells me that there are 130 packages to be
> upgraded plus 43 new.
options:
nfs mount a bigger drive (-:
if /home or some other partition is big enough, point /var/cache/apt there
use a public nfs mirror (yes, they do exist)
submit a bug that apt handle this case better (or if there is a bug, send more
info)
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