Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Jared Norris
On 31 December 2011 16:24, Cary Bielenberg wrote: > If you set up a server with lamp & put the files in the root of the /var/www > ( change ownership of the files to www-data) then in your source.list have > the files looking to deb http://10.x.x.x/Ubuntu oneiric main blah blah it > will work we c

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Chris Robinson
From: Jared Norris To: Chris Robinson Cc: Dave Hall ; "ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com" Sent: Saturday, 31 December 2011 4:17 PM Subject: Re: Brisbane Install Fest Ah bingo, works like a charm. I'll wait for some updates to hit the repo to double check it a

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Cary Bielenberg
If you set up a server with lamp & put the files in the root of the /var/www ( change ownership of the files to www-data) then in your source.list have the files looking to deb http://10.x.x.x/Ubuntu oneiric main blah blah it will work we could get cute & create a bind se

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Jared Norris
On 31 December 2011 15:59, Chris Robinson wrote: > > I don't have a webserver set up and it needs http or ftp access for apt-get > to work it would seem from my brief tests. > - > > No, it looks like you can use local file.  Open up software sources ---> > o

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Chris Robinson
I don't have a webserver set up and it needs http or ftp access for apt-get to work it would seem from my brief tests. - No, it looks like you can use local file.  Open up software sources ---> other software and hit the add button.  Paste the following

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Jared Norris
On 31 December 2011 14:01, Chris Robinson wrote: > -- > *From:* Jared Norris > *To:* Chris Robinson > *Cc:* Dave Hall ; "ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com" < > ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com> > *Sent:* Saturday, 31 December 2011 12:56 PM > > *Subject:* Re: Brisbane Install Fe

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Chris Robinson
From: Jared Norris To: Chris Robinson Cc: Dave Hall ; "ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com" Sent: Saturday, 31 December 2011 12:56 PM Subject: Re: Brisbane Install Fest No idea, I'm a simple end user who knows enough to get himself into trouble and occasionally ba

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Jared Norris
On 31 December 2011 12:03, Chris Robinson wrote: > > From: Dave Hall > To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > Sent: Saturday, 31 December 2011 11:49 AM > > Subject: Re: Brisbane Install Fest > > > That's why you do it with iptables (and possibly some dummy dns entries >

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Chris Robinson
From: Dave Hall To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Saturday, 31 December 2011 11:49 AM Subject: Re: Brisbane Install Fest That's why you do it with iptables (and possibly some dummy dns entries using dnsmasq).  If you rsync the repos you don't have to

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Dave Hall
On 31/12/11 12:46, Chris Robinson wrote: *From:* Dave Hall *To:* ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com *Sent:* Saturday, 31 December 2011 11:16 AM *Subject:* Re: Brisbane Install Fest With a bit of iptables magic you should be able

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Chris Robinson
From: Dave Hall To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Saturday, 31 December 2011 11:16 AM Subject: Re: Brisbane Install Fest With a bit of iptables magic you should be able to redirect requests to the Australian mirrors to a local server running nginx which

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Dave Hall
On 31/12/11 11:23, Chris Robinson wrote: *From:* Jared Norris *To:* Chris Robinson *Cc:* "ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com" *Sent:* Friday, 30 December 2011 10:36 PM *Subject:* Re: Brisbane Install Fest Yeah it sounds like a g

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Chris Robinson
From: Chris Robinson To: Jared Norris Cc: "ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com" Sent: Saturday, 31 December 2011 10:23 AM Subject: Re: Brisbane Install Fest Disk try *Disk tray* One of the few curses of the touch typist -

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Chris Robinson
From: Jared Norris To: Chris Robinson Cc: "ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com" Sent: Friday, 30 December 2011 10:36 PM Subject: Re: Brisbane Install Fest Yeah it sounds like a good idea but I don't know how useful it will actually be. Unfortunately it was someone e

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread boden.matthews
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Re: Drum roll please..............

2011-12-30 Thread Jared Norris
On 21 December 2011 20:58, Francis (Grizzly) Smit wrote: > On 20/12/11 20:02, Tom Sparks wrote: >> >> thumbs up :) >> looks good :) >> >> > yep looks good > >> --- >> tom_a_sparks "It's a nerdy thing I like to do" >> >> >> - Original Message - >>> >>> From: Jared Norris >>> To: ubuntu-au@l

Re: Brisbane Install Fest

2011-12-30 Thread Jared Norris
On 29 December 2011 08:38, Chris Robinson wrote: > I don't know about setting up a local repository, but I'll see if I can work > something out.  It might be as simple as enabling the local drive as a valid > source as you do for the install CD, but this doesn't get around the problem > of updatin