Andrew Pollock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 04:28:28PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> > It might help if we didn't keep a fairly useless copy of every .deb used
> > to install the base system in /var/cache/apt/archives. Intelligent use
> > of disk space could at least delete debs as they were installed, or
> > better, only download and install them one at a time.
> 
> Yeah my first install last night had a smallish (200Mb IIRC) and it fell 
> over in a screaming heap. It seems that during the package aquisition 
> stage, it does lots of apt-get -d's and then apt-get installs. I agree, it 
> should be doing apt-get clean's as it goes or something to keep the space 
> consumption to a minimum.

Installing from net or cd?

MfG
        Goswin


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