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On Sunday 14 November 2004 6:22 pm, Matt Lee wrote:
The one thing with Debian is that you can only realistically install the base system at a meeting unless you have a fast internet connection. That's why Simon created a Debian mirror for the Debian masterclass - it requires a large amount of space and cannot be replicated as a stack of DVD's!I will happily bring the mirror along. matt
Aha, that sounds useful. I thought it was a temporary thing, how long would it take to update? Standard network access presumably, so could we run a Debian install meeting now WITHOUT an internet connection at all? How big is it now? What's involved in using it at a meeting - just power and Cat5+hub? It wouldn't need to be up to the minute, we'd just need to add a section on how to use the mirror and how to revert to the main Debian mirrors after the meeting - just a few lines on how to modify the sources list. Then new users can run apt-get update at home. Then we'd need a few copies of the installer CDR, some floppies or USB sticks or whatever to run parted or other partition tools and advance warning if someone is bringing a Mac etc. to get the right installer burnt to CDR, or someone could designate their laptop as a source for a network install, directed at the mirror. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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