On 30-Jun-2000 Christopher Thompson wrote: > I plan on installing Debian on three computers this weekend. I > have a cable modem but limited download bandwidth and so I'd > like to set up a temporary mirror just for the weekend. > > So I'm curious... how much disk space should I set aside to > mirror potato for i386 machines? >
install on one computer (or go to an existing debian box). run dpkg --get-selections > file. Each line that ends in 'install' is an installed package. You only need to actually mirror what you use. Which can be a mirror from around 50mb to 300mb. All of potato is nearly 2gb.
