On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 04:11:08PM -0400, Bill White wrote: > I hope this is not a foolish question. I have looked at the > FAQ and the Debian web page, but I haven't found the answer.
I, too, was faced with this not too long ago. It's not a difficult fix but it's not obvious. > What's the best way to get a current copy of unstable for installation > on a single, not-very-well-connected machine? > [...] > Is it possible to upgrade from slink to potato using a 56k modem connection? > If it takes 650Mb to upgrade everything it is not possible. If it is, > my problems are solved, of course. It's possible, of course. It's possible to upgrade with a 2400 baud modem, but I wouldn't want to do it. :) What's involved: Change your /etc/apt/sources.list file. This is mine: # Use for a local mirror - remove the ftp1 http lines for the bits # your mirror contains. # deb file:/your/mirror/here/debian stable main contrib non-free # See sources.list(5) for more information, especial # Remember that you can only use http, ftp or file URIs deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main non-US/contrib non-US/non-free The deb-src is optional. (Provides apt-get source packagename functionality) Now apt-get update, and then apt-get dist-upgrade . It shouldn't be much more than 100, 150 megs - an overnight should do it (hoping of course that you aren't charged per minute for calls). Important to realise is that, while slink comprises 2 CDs, you don't have all the packages installed. (I hope you don't!) Therefore apt will only upgrade what you need.
