On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 04:46:58PM -0400, Case, Benjamin wrote: | That makes complete sence. Is 3/10 ancient times as far as SID is
March is ancient in OSS terms. | concerned ? I just want to work with the 2.4 kernel, some Xfree 4 | stuff, and I know that there are SID level dependancies that I will Nope, I have woody on my box and X4 is really nice. I downloaded (via apt-get) kernel 2.4 but I haven't installed it yet since I know it will either work or fsck my modutils (which would make 2.2 unusable). | need to meet for those. This is just temporary until my DSL | comes....so I am d/l all of SID to have for the next week or so. | Does that sound like a good apporach, or am I goin overboard. I just | dont want to find myself in search of Packages without any internet | to get them with. I'd recommend getting Potato CDs to install from. Then download the packages you want, and any dependencies from woody to put on removeable media (CD-R works fine, or zip disk, or move a hard drive, whatever). packages.debian.org will list all the packages and the dependencies each package has. If you have a dial-up connection that you don't pay per-[minute|byte|whatever] you can use it to download stuff overnight. (I only have dial-up at the moment so that's what I do). Point sources.lst to woody and apt-get update apt-get --download-only dist-upgrade YMMV on the dist-upgrade though. Several weeks ago I had no show-stopper problems. Getting every package is going overboard since, presumably, you don't use every package. Just get the ones you need. -D