In article <20001021223836.A11969@serendipity> you wrote:
Anyone out there with a CD burner want to donate to the cause? *grin*
Running slink is severely doing my head in :( How did I know that was coming Aq? :-) I'm downloading disk2 ISO as we speak only 30 hrs over 64k ISDN :~} I'll cook a copy of the non-US disk 1 and disk 2 for you and bring them to the next meeting, you'll have to turn up then won't you? :-) What? That's insanity! ;-) just get the boot floppies and do an install over PPP. takes three hours over 56K.
Ah, 56K, how far out of my reach ;) I've only got 33k6. And, after the following somewhat complex command: for n in `dpkg --get-selections | grep install | cut -f1`; do grep-available "Package: $n" | grep "^Size: " | cut -f2 -d" "; done | python -c "import sys,string;f=sys.stdin.readlines();print reduce(lambda x,y: x+y,map(string.atoi,f));" ..it would appear that there's approximately 300MB of stuff to download to upgrade my system from slink to potato. 300MB is a Non Trivial Amount on a 33k6 modem. I am toying with the idea, though, since I basically have tomorrow free. The flaw here is that I can't do any work while it's doing it, because installing packages gobbles up my CPU and my measly 32MB of RAM, and my box descends into Swap Hell :) Aq -- if I upgrade, I'll let you know :) -- "You can criticise my methods if you want, but keep your snide comments to yourself. Oh, and while you're at it, don't criticise my methods." -- Rupert Giles, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"