On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 12:42:20AM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > >why are you not just pulling packages from the net? > > I could do it, but I prefer using the DVDs. My idea is to get to a state > where I bootstrap download DVD images using jigdo and thus minimise the > load on the debian servers and also to then exclusively use the DVDs > locally on my machine from then on permanently so as to further reduce > antisocial load on the servers. > > This is the idea. I am have also installed Debian on my machine at work > and am now about to put it on another one in the laboratory (I run my own > company so I can choose the OS for the business as it grows). These are > old machines so they run on CD drives not DVDs but they are not connected > to the internet. If I get more capital into the business I would get some > more and newer machines but probably not have an internet link to all of > them. So CDs and DVDs are useful to me. >
Another alternative is to use a hard drive (either in a USB enclosure if your old computers have USB, or an internal IDE you move around) that you have connected to your main box and use it for an apt-proxy (or other such package) repository of the packages that you actually use. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]