I have a (partial) mirror of the debian distribution maintained on my system, for my personal use, and keep both the 'frozen' and 'unstable' sections for upgrading both my main system, as well as a couple of smaller systems.
I have tried using dpkg-mountable (from dselect) to install from my archives, yet the way it is currently set up, I am only able to set one main distribution, plus a non-us distribution and a 'local' area. It appears impossible to have dpkg-mountable (and this applies to the nfs method as well) use more than one major distribution at once, which pretty much makes the dual distributions I have useless as far as accessing them via dpkg-mountable goes. This strikes me as a rather poor choice in design of this installation method (my feeling also applies to the nfs method), since - for those of us who have more than one distribution they wish to install from - it limits us to using ftp, which can take hours to complete (the last time I tried using ftp, it took me over 12 hours, and I have a cable-modem connection - at, effectively, 10MB/sec transfer rate - to the internet). If there is a work-around to installing via either nfs or dpkg-mountable, or both (and especially dpkg-mountable), which would allow setting more than one main distribution source, I would greatly appreciate it if someone would let me know. Thanks, Taren -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null