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On 30/12/2011 10:36 PM, Jared Norris <jrnor...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 29 December 2011 08:38, Chris Robinson <fabricat...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I don't know about setting up a local repository, but I'll see if I can work
> something out. It might be as simple as enabling the local drive as a valid
> source as you do for the install CD, but this doesn't get around the problem
> of updating the package lists. I'm not sure how that works.
Yeah it sounds like a good idea but I don't know how useful it will
actually be. Unfortunately it was someone else's idea, I just happened
to implement the "download the whole Ubuntu repository and set up a
cron job to rsync every day" part of it.
> There's currently over 200Mb of update downloads required for a typical
> Oneiric install. I do have a procedure for easily putting these on the
> target drive at install time so it gets around having to actually download
> them. (It's a script that you can run alongside the installer) This doesn't
> get around the need to update the package lists either. Even if we can't
> update the user's computer at the time of install I recommend we put the
> files on the target machine to improve the user experience when they get it
> home, with the warning that it's going to take 15 minutes or so to install
> all the updates which will have a performance hit. Regardless, I recommend
> installing without updating, or even with an internet connection present.
> This speeds things up _immensely_ and the updates can be done later even
> while the user is using the machine.
Sounds great!
> I have a brand new 1.5Gb USB drive that can be used for backing up data if
> necessary. It's something I'm used to doing for PC customers for
> re-installs, including the mail files for Outlook, Express etc. Of course
> we need to ask before backing up, but most people will not have a problem
> with this.
>
> It's important to ask the question about data and backups before doing
> anything to a user's computer: In my experience people can have things like
> years of family photos on the hard drive that they've never bothered backing
> up, or in some cases have little idea of how to do it.
Exactly. I have a spare stack of CDRs that I'd be willing to take
along for people to burn to and keep "just in case".
> If someone wants Ubuntu installed alongside Windows how are we going to
> handle this? I haven't done a lot of that, but my recollection is that it
> can take some time to defrag partitions and move them around, though
> defragging can speed up the move/resize quite a bit. If time is an issue we
> might have to be satisfied with a Wubi install, though that can benefit from
> defragging the Windows partition also.
I haven't done anything to do with Windows outside using it at the
work office in over 5 years so I'm a bit out of date and practice. I
was hoping there'd be someone along who knew more than I but worst
case scenario I was going to scour
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot for pertinent
information.
> Chris
>
Thanks for your input, I look forward to see you and others there in
just over a week.
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