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1. Working out from my knoppix machine at work which packages it's going to need. 2. saving that list somehow, going home, downloading all of the packages at home. 3. Writing a CDRW or something with those packages. 4. Configuring apt on my machine at work to get all of the packages it needs from the CDRW, rather than the net.

I have a script setup to do this type of thing (although in reverse) it basically consists of ... [snip]

Thanks very much! This was exactly what I needed. -- Cameron