Re: How to get Woody on an Off-line computer?
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:19:49AM +0100, Preben Randhol wrote:
| I have a computer at home which is not connected to the internet (no
| modem, ISDN etc). I want woody on this machine as all new packages
| require libc6 2.2.x and X 4.0 and I need the latest versions of some
| packages. I downloaded the unofficial CDs (made 01-01-2001) from
| ftp.fsn.hu and took them with me to install. But unfortunately those do
| not contain libc6 2.2.x only 2.1.3 as far as I could find out. So I was
| wondering if it is possible to make woody CD-s oneself (without too much
| fuzz) or if there is another way?
You could just download all the packages you might want and to a HD
install. (Assuming you have a machine with a decently fast connection
and a disk big enough to transfer to the un-connected machine)
I don't know how difficult it is to make cds.
|
| I know I can just get the libc6 deb file, but there are a lot of
| dependancies that I would have to trackdown as well so I don't think
| that would be easy, unless somebody has a trick :-)
|
| Thanks in advance for any help.
|
| PS: Is there set any deadline for woody as of now?
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