Thanks Hardik. I will try this. Moz
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Hardik Dalwadi <hardik.dalw...@ubuntu.com>wrote: > on Wednesday 22 April 2009 08:16 AM Moz said the following: > > Hello All, > > > > I recently installed Hardy 8.04.2 on four different machines and Xubuntu > > 8.04.1 on one machine. Luckily I have access to a broadband internet > > connection and can download updates and packages on those machines, > > however, two of the machines do not have access to broadband and I can > > never be able to finish updates in time. There are other issues of > > electricity availability and reliability of internet connection involved > > here. > > > > 1. How can I create a CD/DVD which will include all the packages I need. > > It is a pretty standard set of packages. > > Scribus, Inkscape, Gimp plugins, K3b, VLC, Mplayer, mencoder, ffmpeg, > > xvidcap, Blender, Thunderbird, Skype, Epiphany, Opera, Acroread, certain > > video editing packages, Vbox and so on. > > I do not mind if the packages are not updated for a year or so. > > Try Remastersys for Ubuntu [1]. > > [1] http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/remastersystool.html > > > 2. Those two machines which do not have access to broadband internet, > > how can I take updates to these machines from the ones that I update > > with broadband connections? > > Try apt-cacher [2] or apt-proxy [3] if you have network between those > machines. or simple trick if you don't have network [4]. > > [2] > http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-set-up-a-repository-cache-with-apt-cacher > > [3] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptProxy > [4] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=129570 >
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