On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:52:58 +0400, you wrote: :cvsup of FreeBSD is much like Debian's apt-get. you can either get the source :or the .deb package to install. : :your friend doesn't need to get the whole shebang just to install debian. one :only needs 5 diskettes and the base install file and just apt-get the rest. :that way one can install only the files one needs. : :hth.
Thanks for the replies but that isn't really what I meant. And they already have potato installed. It was more a question of building a "limited" local mirror. jt ________________________________________ Alternative Computing Solutions... Debian GNU/Linux http://www.debian.org