On Wednesday 20 August 2003 8:42 pm, abower@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 09:04:58PM +0000, BenEBoy wrote:
Evening all,
I'm just playing with my new morphix install and was wondering if you lot could answer a couple of questions (one strange and one vague)?
The strange question is whether it's possible to halt apt-get when it's downloading stuff without losing what's already been downloaded? Until I get hooked up with broadband I'm on a dialup with a 2 hour cutoff which sort of limits what I can download in that time. I'm just looking for a way around it...
apt-get on debian caches the downloaded (and partially downloaded) packages in /var/cache/apt/archives you can look and see if morphix does it also I guess.
Adam
Cheers, that also answered another question I had about where apt stuck the stuff it downloaded :-)
I'm very impressed so far. The speed reduction is taking a while to get used to, especially booting but I expect thats partially due to all the unecessary services it starts. Time to start stripping stuff out of /etc/rc.d/* I think. Apt is a godsend, although I'm missing the slightly hypnotic gcc messages scrolling up the teminal when I install something.