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On Thursday 06 March 2008 11:33, Alan Pope wrote: > On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 11:23:59AM +0000, Tom Potts wrote: > > I'm trying to install Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu onto some old PC's to see > > what I can squeeze out of them and then let them free to anyone I can > > dump them on. I've only got a flaky 512k BB and was wondering if anyone > > has tried setting up local repositories? > > Yup. I have a local copy of dapper, edgy, feisty, gutsy and hardy > repositories for i386 and AMD64 architectures. Each one clocks up about 17G > of space for binary only, about 35G if you want binary and source packages. > > I use apt-mirror to keep that up to date, which runs overnight each day. That sounds promising - I would like to avoid the initial download from (*)ubuntu so I guess I'd have to modify an ISO to look at my local repositories somehow??? I may setup a 'bring me your virus ridden pc's and I shall set them free' service if I can get to the bottom of it! Tom te tom te tom > > Cheers, > Al. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html