Hi, all -- Yes, I'm back with more questions :-/ Let's see if this post finally makes it through. Colin Watson had suggested a debootstrap --download-only from a real mirror to build an install tree that I could use for an install. I was at the time already working on pulling down the pool/ tree from the mirror. After wget-ting through about 4G of pool and then losing my connection, I tried a --download-only and got 44M in a var/lib tree that looked nothing like a pool (or sarge) directory, and 44M seems awfully small for a source tree. Obviously I'm lost again. I want to download and have locally a directory tree suitable for a fairly complete (ie full base system with X and compilers/interpreters; I can live with apt-getting web servers, databases, and web languages later if I must), non-network-dependent, repeatable debootstrap ... file:///path/to/tree chroot install of sarge. I very much hope that that tree can fit into 2G since that's the free space I have on my test system, but I could wipe and reformat and reinstall in order to have a bigger slice. Can I accomplish this through a wget --mirror command? If so, to what should I point? If not, can I accomplish it at all? If so, how? If not, do you hav any recommendations for doing a few chroot server installs at the slow end of a lousy DSL connection? TIA & HAND :-D -- David T-G davidtg@justpickone.org http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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