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This is achieved by creatively manipulating the APT configuration file. The
-essential premis to tell APT to look on a disc for it's archive files. Note
+essential premise to tell APT to look on a disc for it's archive files. Note
that the disc should be formated with a filesystem that can handle long file
names such as ext2, fat32 or vfat.
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On the target machine the first thing to do is mount the disc and copy
<em>/var/lib/dpkg/status</em> to it. You will also need to create the directories
-outlined in the Overview, <em>archives/partial/</em> and <em>lists/partial/</em>
+outlined in the Overview, <em>archives/partial/</em> and <em>lists/partial/</em>.
Then take the disc to the remote machine and configure the sources.list.
On the remote machine execute the following:
[ APT fetches all the packages needed to upgrade the target machine ]
</example>
-The dist-upgrade command can be replaced with any-other standard APT commands,
+The dist-upgrade command can be replaced with any other standard APT commands,
particularly dselect-upgrade. You can even use an APT front end such as
-<em>dselect</em> However this presents a problem in communicating your
+<em>dselect</em>. However this presents a problem in communicating your
selections back to the local computer.
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