I've almost got a deb mirror! If I only had a larger hard drive, I would not have a complete set of i386 releases. I found a script set up by LSU's math people that used debmirror and rsync. I trimmed out the spac section and the script happily copied the i386 potato, woody, sid and sarge. Unfortunately, I only had 5 gigs of space. I'm going to try trimming out everything but woody, or find a bigger disk.
Mirroring automatically sets things up correctly for an install. I made a symlink for "stable" to woody and set a machine to run with it. It worked beautifully, except for the small problem of missing about half the needed packages. All I had to do was manually enter the path to "stable" in the ftp install. On 2003.07.14 09:30 John Hebert wrote: > Hmm! Sounds interesting. Yes, please bring that CD. > > I'm hoping to have a server there so that we can do installs via FTP/HTTP to > speed things up. I plan to put a bunch of ISOs on the server for that > purpose. > > Can somebody tell me how those should be mounted and made available via > FTP/HTTP? Mat Branyon mentioned the specific command a few weeks back. > > Thanks, > John Hebert >
