Re: Symple method to transfer some packages from Desktop system to laptop Debian Etch system?
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On 01/27/08 15:48, Csányi Pál wrote:
> Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:45:54 -0500 keltezéssel Douglas A. Tutty azt írta:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 12:10:23AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
>>> On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:29:00 -0600
>>> Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>>>> On 01/26/08 18:21, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:12:39AM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>> I have a Desktop Debian GNU/Linux Etch with network connection,
>>>>>> and a laptop with installed only Debian GNU/Linux from netinstall.iso,
>>>>>> but laptop has not network connection.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is it a method how to "copy" some more debian packages from
>>>>>> my desktop Debian Etch to laptop Debian Etch, say with USB drive?
>>>>> sure, just cp the .debs from /var/cache/apt/archives and then install
>>>>> them.
>>>> Or install apt-proxy on the desktop system, and point the laptop's
>>>> sources.list at the desktop instead of the "real" sources.
>>> He says the laptop has no network connection - see above.
>> Does the laptop happen to have a serial port? You could connect a null
>> modem between the laptop and the desktop boxes and run ppp. This not
>> only allows transfering files, but gives access to the internet via the
>> desktop (with suitable forwarding setup) so that install can proceed
>> normally.
>
> But I have not nullmodem cable.
People used to install Unix from dozens of floppy disks.
When you have limited hardware, much expenditure of time and effort
are a foregone conclusion.
> I think that that it is maybe possyble to use for this pourpose an
> USB cable?
Or get a USB-Ethernet adapter.
> Sooner or later I shall by an PCMCIA ethernet card for laptop.
>
> I use an USB drive and this apt HOWTO:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html
>
> so I can now to install packages from Desktop to laptop.
A laptop with USB but not networking? Oh well...
> I have only an error message when install from this local repository
> from USB drive about that that this is an Untrusted source.
>
> How can I get rid of this message?
For now, ignore it.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals, I'm a vegetarian
because I hate vegetables!"
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