[UFO Chicago] debian for the broadband deprived (was open gl dependencies...)

[Paul Suda]

  Yeah, I'd be down with getting the most recent stable version and then
doing some selective upgrades via the network.

  I had to do a little of this with Suse and it was only about an evening's
worth of downloads. Since security isn't a big deal for me (I have very
restrictive filtering, run no network services other than ssh, and am
usually only online an hour or so per day), there are only a few apps and
libraries I'll need to update.

  So, let's do it! Who ever can make the copy without too much trouble,
contact me and we'll work something out.

thanks,
Paul

On 2001.06.15 18:26:01 -0500 Nick Moffitt wrote:
> begin  Peter A. Peterson II quotation:
> > Quoting Paul Suda:
> > > I will still be happy to compensate anyone who can make me Debian
> > > distro disks with blank disks or the cost of the CD's.
> > 
> > I'm sure that Jack and I can do this for you -- but I think that the
> > current installation media is for Potato, not Woody -- so you'd be
> > "stuck" with stable, so to speak. I don't know that you can make a
> > "snapshot" of debian unstable for cd install.
> 
> 	Well, doing a dist-upgrade from a stable system to an unstable
> one isn't as bad as a full network install, since you can use the
> machine while you're upgrading.  I'm sure he wouldn't mind doing a
> dist-upgrade over his little modem.
>