On 19.03.18 14:15, Florian Zieboll wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:12:00 +1100 > Erik Christiansen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Would half a dozen net installs necessitate six times > > the downloads? > > > Depending on your plans, I'd say that six netinstalls /can/ be more > efficient than the DVD-installer download - especially when the boxes > don't share the same architecture. I personally would rather start > learning to (caching) proxy, try to share the debs > from /var/cache/apt/archives of your first installation or just clone > the disk.
I've used dpkg -i on a single deb on several occasions, but that would be tedious and error prone for a whole distro. > There are also two specialized packages out there: apt-cacher and > apt-cacher-ng, but I worked with neither of them. At least on the > longer run (updates!), that would certainly save a lot of bandwidth. I'll look into them, and see if they'll adopt an archive that is already in place. Erik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
