Updating the Badger (v5.10) by dialup...

[Eberhard Roloff]

Brian Lunergan wrote:

> Evening folks:
> 
> I have the base and security repositories hooked into my setup (not the
> applications one just yet) and I've gotten the little pop up that updates
> are waiting. So, off I go to the update manager and I find it's giving me
> an estimate of 179 packages to update weighing in at an estimated 169m
> (I'm assuming that's non-ISO shorthand for megabytes). Now, on dial up
> that is a non-starter to do in one sitting when I'm using the household
> phone line. Can that list be downloaded in smaller (considerably smaller)
> blocks or is that likely to cause problems with the operation of the
> system.
> 
Maybe you could ask a friend, preferably a friend with broadband internet
access ;-) to pull the updates for you and burn to CD-Rom?

I did just that when I was on dial-up and it was less frustrating (for me,
at least) that seeing updates sloooooowwwly dropping in for days and nights
to come.
regards
Eberhard