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Rob Beard wrote:
Installing CD's is slow and scary - probably the bit that puts people off the most so a demo of that - running away at the side to show how easy it is....Quoting tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:paul sutton wrote:i thin 20 cd's cost about £20 from the ubuntu shop I am not sure if they are giving away lots of cd's any more, i did read that was stopping, there could be exceptions to the new policy if this exists.You can do better than that! Burn 2 cd's with ubuntu and ubunut minimal install Install 1 computer with Ubuntu - and set up APT-NG repository cache:http://www.ubuntugeek.com/apt-cacher-ng-http-download-proxy-for-software-packages.htmlInstall another machine with ubuntu minimal (20 meg so shouldnt take long) modify it to use the above installed cache, set up grade working, move onto the next. I havent tried to upgrade the minimal install this way but on 100Meg network it should install the upgrades a lot faster that loading from a cd - and look pretty impressive as well. I'd practise this at home but I'm lazy.. Tom te tom te tomAhh, slight problem with that. I get the impression Rhia was on about giving out CDs rather than actually running an install day. If anything I think the idea is have a couple of machines on hand which are running Ubuntu to demontrate it and then students can take away a CD to try.
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