Re: Debian unstable DVD-s

Bill Marcum (marcumbill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) writes:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:03:00 +0100, Yvan office
<me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I am on a slow dial-up connection to the Internet, and I use (at home)
Debian unstable. Last year I used jigdo to download 3 DVD-s from my
friend with cable Internet. Now it seems that .jigdo files are
outdated.

Is there a way to download all packages needed for latest Debian sid
(again on a relatively slow 256K connection)? How do I create .jigdo
files?

If you are on dial-up, it may be quicker to mail-order the DVDs, or
download the netinstall CD image. (I'm not sure if any vendor sells the
latest sid DVDs, since that is such a moving target). In fact, if you
are running sid and upgrading regularly, you should already have the
latest versions of the packages you have installed. Aptitude or
synaptic can show a list of new packages.

And there used to be places where you could buy for a minimal price
a given distribution. I've not looked at the link recently, but
there was a list of such places at http://www.linux.org Or I suppose
one could ask a local user's group if someone could download and make
the copy, or even find a library or internet cafe/photocopy place that
has burners in their computers, so you could download at high speed and
bring home the distribution.

Michael

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