Scott Fitzgerald wrote:
I'm a dial up user who purchased sarge on a 14 cd set. I'm buying a laptop and was wondering, is there a faq or howto anyplace on copying the whole distribution to a partition on a HD? It would be great to be away from home, and if a package is recommended to me to just be able to log into root and run apt-get while on the road. --- Scotty
You might want to check out apt-move. Theres a nice discussion about doing the exact same thing here:
http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=698basically you can make a repository from the cds to your local hd, providing you have enough space for it.
hth, jeff