On Fri, 10 May 2013 11:04:26 Trent W. Buck wrote,
>I assume you've already considered and rejected simply installing from >mini (12MB) or netinst (around 100MB), and then installing only what you >need, on demand, via apt's http method? That would be the obvious way >to do it if your installed box has reliable internet access. I have tried it, the problem I found is that the longer I maintained and updated my own package repository the more problems I had with a net install and subsequent local upgrade. A complete new install from the net downloads something like 3 gig of packages, a figure I consider to be to high (I am being very provincial here :-)). I found a complete standard install from my stable repository, copying the package selections by the method in the Debian docs then doing a dist-upgrade to my latest local copy of testing was completely reliable and easily repeatable over all my three systems. I only upgrade testing when a signifcant change takes place, I would be lucky to upgrade it once a year. >If you have a central host that has internet, and airgapped ones a day's >travel away, you could use apt-walkabout to queue requests up over >sneakernet between them. I didn't have much luck with it myself -- I >found it easier to run a debmirror on the internet end, and generate >monthly rsync --only-write-batch binary diffs to post out on DVD. I have no easy way to access interent much better than I can here. There is a internet cafe in town (Note 1) thats quite fast but I found the downloads were not always reliable, downloading something like DVD image was possible but it was not really repeatable, :-(. Note 1: One has to be carefull and keep an eye on the distances one travels living in the "sticks", you can easily end up with a fuel bill thats really unsustainable these days. Lindsay _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
