Hi Glen, Thanks for the response.
Glen Turner wrote: > You can bodgy it. Set up a transparent proxy and re-write > the URLs the use the explicit proxy. That sounds like a bit of a hassle. > Plan B is simply to download the whole thing to somewhere > local using wget and run a HTTP server from there. That's > how I upgrade my machines at home, since it avoids multiple > downloads from the ISP and is much faster than an install > from a DVD, taking maybe 15 minutes. Geez, I have been spoilt. I've been doing Debian net installs for what must be close to a decade. I *know* this is saving me bandwidth. For instance I've run up a Debian i386 instance in a Qemu VM. The Qemu disk img after a complete install with all the dev tools I need for testing but without X is 1.7 Gig. If the installed image is 1.7 Gig, what I downloaded (ie compressed packages) was *way* smaller than 1.7Gig. The Fedora alternative seems to be to downlaod a 3.4 Gig ISO. Sorry I'm not buying. I'll wait until Fedora joins us in the 1990s or fiddle with the proxy solution. Cheers, Erik -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Erik de Castro Lopo ----------------------------------------------------------------- "There is no truth on earth but monotheism and following tenets of Islam and there is no way for salvation of mankind but rule of Islam over mankind," -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0708142013173859.htm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
