On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:27:03PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Hi guys, > > I've acquired an alpha machine (a "COMPAQ Professional Workstation > XP1000"). It's installed and not doing much at the moment. Would > another buildd be useful? I have a full local mirror on the same LAN, > and I've already got sbuild and friends up and running... > > -- > Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > Into the distance, a ribbon of black > Stretched to the point of no turning back
I could also throw in my older Miata (433M Alpha.) I too have a full mirror thanks to Steve's guidance :) but haven't yet installed sbuild. All help on this would be appreciated if you consider an old machine with limited disk worth it :) [128M of memory but only about 2G of disk :( ] [Steve - mirror now up and running here - but how do you access yours? Did you set up apache / proftpd or what? Full mirror of ftp.uk.debian.org appears to be around 106G at the moment - is that about right?] Andy - knackered after a day of fixing a botched script - when /usr/bin and some of /sbin go away your Debian system takes a long time to rebuild. I might even write up an FAQ/HOWTO on how to rebuild Debian from (almost) bare metal. Anybody know the _correct_ way to zero the dpkg package cache and have it reinstall virtually everything - even the stuff it thinks is already properly installed? Andy
