[plug] Slink in a Blink

[Matt Kemner]

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Trevor Phillips wrote:

> about 5 minutes; gotta love that UWA Mirror Site), I find my Debian box is now
> Slinked!!

Now go and install "apt" and be amazed at how easy it is to install new
packages.
(eg. "apt-get install x11ampg" is all you need to install the latest
version of x11amp - it will ftp it and install it, and all the libraries
it depends on, for you.)

> So much for downloading the ISO and burning it. I'm just wondering if this IS
> the whole 2.1 dist;

It is, and is the way I (and probably most Debian users on this list) have
been running slink or potato for a while now.. I got to the stage where
for installing a new machine, I would boot off the hamm cd, install the
base system from CD, download and install apt from my local ftp server,
then point apt at the slink dir on ftp.uwa.edu.au and install the rest
through that.

> time to try that new Kernel I think. ^_^

You'll be amazed by the speed increase between 2.0 and 2.[12]
(I was)

 - Matt