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Tom Potts wrote: > 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. > > I've love to setup something like this but at 17GB I just haven't got the space at the moment. Might be something I'll look into for a future Ubuntu install day. Is it possible to start mirroring the repositories and then stop them and restart them? What I'm thinking is that I get off-peak bandwidth of 300GB and only 45GB peak. I don't really want to use a quarter of my peak bandwidth downloading a load of packages. Either that or could it be setup to limit the download speed? (that way I could set something going on a box at work over a week running at a slower speed). Rob -- 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