I have dial up and just installed my new LINUX os, and it is saying I have 215 updates available. I don’t always update right away, but since I’m having new audio card problems I may need to. If I do all of the updates, it will take over 24 hours. That is okay. The bad part is if my LINUX os has to be reinstalled, I have lost all of those updates.

I’m trying to learn how to use aptoncd to make a copy of those packages I download that are upgradeable and save them to a disc. It would save bunch of bandwidth and time to do a total reinstall if I want to include all of the updates. I just don’t know if I should use it before I download the updates or after. And , whether it will also copy the packages that get installed when you one installs the os. I don’t need double copies of them.