LSU math deb mirror.. tell me more!

--- will hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
> > 
> 
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