>On Aug 19 2001, Johnny Ernst Nielsen wrote: >> The best solution someone had was installing a webservice on the >> local computer so one could install the packages as if they were >> pulled from the net. > > Use apt-move to do that. It is quite easy to use (and the > version in woody is so much better than the version in potato) > and it will construct a small, local Debian mirror from the > contents of the debian packages that you have already fetched. > > Just update your system, slap a boot floppies directory there, > burn that onto a CD-R and bingo: you have a brand spanking new > snapshot of woody in your own hands. > > Quite easy and I've done myself this a lot of times (and also > with a lot of goodies like adding a Ximian Gnome and KDE tree > to a potato CD that I made to some friends). > > There is no mistery in that. > > So you say that apt-move is the _only_ tool I need to make an installation CD off the cache contents?
I'm not very techy. The look I had on apt-move's man page did not make any sense to me. Anyway, perhaps I should have a second look at apt-move. Where do I find information about the "slapping a boot floppies directory there"? I'm also quite new to Debian you see. I do not want to put Woody stuff in my Potato unless I really have to. I need my system to be as stable as possible. Best regards Johnny :o)
