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On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:04:06 GMT Henry Bremridge wrote:
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:52:51 +0000, Tony Atkin wrote:?I have never tried this myself but I would have ?thought that apt-proxy would be the tool of choice. ?Once you have built one Debian installation with ?apt-get pointed at the proxy machine, then nearly ?everything you need should be on the proxy. ?My guess might be that if you had 1Gb of space on the ?proxy then you should be perfectly safe. (but i'm open ?to being told that is a silly estimate) ?TonyAs a newbie I have been having wonderful fun (!) trying to get debian working and came across the following site http://www.debian.org/CD/mirroring/ As for size, I believe the base install is around 650 Mb. If you want to mirror all the packages then I would have thought you would need nearer 10Gb Henry Bremridge
Thanks Guys. What I had in mind was creating a genuine mirror. There is a chance that we won't be connecting to a WAN at all, besides a 100Mbps LAN connection has got to be more effective than even a nice fast 8Mbps WAN connection. My aim is a hands-on approach to installing/configuring Linux systems - and specifically server systems (since that's part of the course objective). I am hoping to use between 4 and 8 machines, not including mine which will be the mirror, depending on availability. Some will be installing Debian and some will be installing RedHat (or maybe SuSE... I've not firmed up on a decision yet) - vendor neutrality and all that jazz. I don't know why I didn't check the Debian site first! D'oh! "the whole thing - Roughly 100 GB." (from www.debian.org/mirror/size) Since I'm planning on only using x86/stable, I'm sure I'll have plenty of space :D Cheers. Grant. -- Artificial intelligence is no match for nuratal stidutipy. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.