here is my situation.

My Windows PC at school has a internet connection , while My PC at home which I have linux on doesnt.
to install software on my linux I run back and forth to and from School with my flash disk and recently the dependancy hells have made the back and forth trips a pain in the behind.
so I was wondering does anybody know any software which i can use on my windoz PC to mirror a repository onto a flash or hard drive so i could cut my back and forth trips.

PS:so far I have tried Mandrake/Mandriva,Ubuntu,Suse,Fedora and they all require an internet connection to get them be in a user acceptable state (able to able to play mp3,mp4,videos and TV).am now at Slackware 12 (it plays videos and music but Tv is still a problem and Am thinking of jumping back to mandrake 2008)

any HELP will be HIGHLY APPRECIATED

Like always, there are a lot of solutions and I'm sure I don't know the very best of them, but the packages in the reposity are just package files at some URL, so you can use a download helper program (or any other means you like) to download them all, if you like, and place them onto your USB stick. I bet the download utilies available for Windows can check if the file is already downloaded and download it only if it doesn't exist or if it is newer than the existing file, which should save you some time and bandwith..then you should configure your Linux box to use a local reposity which resides on the USB stick, or harddisk where you copy the packages from the USB stick, and run the upgrade tool as usual - it would then use the local reposity files which you copied there via your USB stick.

Thanks for the reply.

I was hopping for such as answer just wanst sure, thing is during all my googling on the matter i only came across 1 such post and he didnt get a reply , so i thot i would ask someone whose was sure it could be done.
will try HTTrack during the holidays (when the net is idol here).

thanks again

J