-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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!" unknown -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHnSS9S9HxQb37XmcRArBpAJ9It35rbmbz9Skv4TWeBzJrj0FtWQCg4Pnm lbB6SwaVbAaZEXMScki1cTk= =GTai -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
