On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 03:14:39PM -0700, Archive wrote: > I really like the idea passed on to me of getting the entire 14 disk > ETCH (older and therefore stable) distribution on a R/W DVD where the > first DVD contains the installer. Apparently, this approach using the > appropriate package management calls will allow that same R/W DVD to be > automatically updated. Another person advocating this approach > indicated that I could use the ISO files instead of creating a mirror of > the POOL (directory having the latests release, testing, and others) > packages.However, I like the idea but it may have a flaw which I detail > further on near the bottom. As others have said, I'm not sure you can do this with DVD-R/W. Maybe with DVD-RAM? but I don't know. DO you have the disk space to store the iso's? if so then someone can just send you the iso's on whatever media and you can store them/update then on your hd somewhere. A
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