Re: Complete local mirror.
Adam Scriven said: > At 13:20 2000/08/15 -0600, you wrote: > >This is so not true. If you installed all your machines, without using any > >sort of shared local cache it would still produce less bandwidth than 1 > >week of a full local mirror. You realize it takes about 200meg/day to keep > >up with our archive? > > Ok, fair enough. I don't need a complete mirror anyway, just the x86 > stuff, and just for stable. > > >Shared APT, squid, etc are all more banddith efficient solutions. > > How would I implement shared apt? That sounds like what I'd like to do, > but I've never even heard of it. What I do is have /var/cache/apt/archives as an NFS share from one machine, and let all my other machines (2 others) mount it as their own /var/cache/apt/archives/ . This is working nicely for me. I haven't tried running apt at the same time on 2 machines, however... -- Orion orion [at] tribble [dot] dyndns [dot] org PO ta to po ta to po ta to po ta to po ta to po ta to po ta to po ta to po ta to po ta to po ta to po ta to po ta to
Re: Random partitioning questions
Quoting Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes, i realize this is something a lot of people disagree on. Which is why > i hope to get a lot of opinions! OK, you asked for it... I would save 500-750MB for later experimentation with other setups (for exaple, debian potato). You don't need to make a partition with this space right now, just set some space apart for later. You could probably take that space from /home and /usr. I would also mount the root partition in hda1 and all the others as logical partitions (hda5, hda6,...) within an extended partition (hda2).
Re: Mounting a floppy drive
Quoting Malcolm Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Similar thing here: > > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 > mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 > FAT bread failed > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev/fd0, or too many > mounted file syste,s > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 0 > > Any ideas? Bad disk? Does this disk work with DOS? Have you tried another disk? Try to run mdir (from the mtools package). You don't need to mount the floppy in order to read it with mdir. Hope it helps, Hermano Cabral
