Re: Debian unstable DVD-s
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 08:51:48AM +0100, Ivan Imperl wrote:
> I am on a slow dial-up connection to the Internet, and I use (at home)
> Debian unstable. Last year I used jigdo to download 3 DVD-s from my
> friend with cable Internet. Now it seems that .jigdo files for Debian
> sid are outdated.
>
> Is there a way to download all packages needed for latest Debian sid
> (again on a relatively slow 256K connection)? How do I create .jigdo
> files?
>
> In short how do I download all packages needed for Debian unstable /
> sid, and burn it on DVD-s?
well, as an alternative to the option of the previous poster (run a
netinstall), you could also use jigdo to download the images for the
testing distribution, which should not be much difference to unstable...
though, it is probably faster to run a netinstall (unless you plan to
install multiple installs, in which case you could also use some sort of
proxy (either a specialiced one for apt, or an aproprialtly configured
http/ftp proxy). downloading all packages will most of the time be and
overkill, since you will only need a fraktion of them.
however, you can download the jigdo files for testing from here:
http://www.debian.org/CD/jigdo-cd/#which
(you will also find a description on how to do it there)
yours
albert
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Albert Dengg <a_d@gmx.at>
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