How do you update Linux on an offline computer?
by proN00B from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4PY7Y)
I was thinking of running it in a virtual machine on a PC that is connected to the Internet, updating it through the apt-get commands and then copying the updated files to the offline computer?
How would I copy the updated files to the offline computer? Where do I find them?
I tried installing a wireless driver that I put on a USB stick with the sudo dpkg -i *.deb command and it did its thing with no errors but the wireless still doesn't work, iwconfig says that there are no wireless devices.
I also tried installing WICD from a USB stick but that needed other files which I couldn't figure out how to install on the offline PC.
We're talking about a Debian-derived Linux distribution here.
apt-offline didn't work.
How would I copy the updated files to the offline computer? Where do I find them?
I tried installing a wireless driver that I put on a USB stick with the sudo dpkg -i *.deb command and it did its thing with no errors but the wireless still doesn't work, iwconfig says that there are no wireless devices.
I also tried installing WICD from a USB stick but that needed other files which I couldn't figure out how to install on the offline PC.
We're talking about a Debian-derived Linux distribution here.
apt-offline didn't work.