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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ===== Warmest Regards, Doug Riddle http://www.dougriddle.com http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/ http://www.libranet.com -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington -- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
