[Lancaster] Linux with dialup?

[mp]

Maybe a neighbour with WiFi? To share or to "borrow" :)

andy baxter wrote:
> Ken Walton wrote:
>> 2009/1/27 llug at lodestar.icom43.net <mailto:llug at lodestar.icom43.net> 
>> <llug at lodestar.icom43.net <mailto:llug at lodestar.icom43.net>>
>>
>>     I would suggest Damn Small Linux, but I couldn't swear as to the modem
>>     support - I'll try and check that. DSL is usually thought of as a
>>     lightweight distro like Puppy, but when it's installed to disk
>>     it's Debian
>>     - and it uses Knoppix hardware detection :-)
>>
>>
>> It's an idea, but the trouble with it is that it's Damn Small. Which 
>> means that most of the packages he's likely to want for a decent 
>> modern desktop aren't included.  Installing OpenOffice.org, for 
>> instance, over a dial-up connection, would take hours.
>>
>> What he really wants is something that has everything he needs on the 
>> disk, so that the less installing of stuff via the internet  he has to 
>> do, the better.
> 
> If DSL is really that close to debian (does mark or anyone else know?) 
> you could install from a DSL disk, but download the Debian CDs for 
> whatever version of Debian it's built from. Then just use the Debian CDs 
> to install extra software as needed. (Warning, Debian comes on 21 Cds, 
> and I'm not sure how systematic they are about what goes on which disk. 
> The first 5 or so should probably do though.) You would need to know 
> about the apt-cdrom command, which is used to add new CDs to the 
> repository list.
> 
> In principle, this should work OK - the apt-get command automatically 
> checks for library dependencies before installing stuff, so if a program 
> doesn't have the right library version it should just fail to install 
> that program rather than killing the whole system.
> 
> Maybe best to ask on the DSL forum first though.
> 
> andy
> 
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