On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Alan Hoffmeister wrote: > Hello there! > > The default installation of Ubuntu Server get packages from the main > repository, is there a simple way for changing this? I mean, it would > be much faster to download packages from a mirror in Brazil, where the > server is, than the USA default one. > > Nanoing sources.list and changing one by one is so creepy :P
This is pre-seedable. The specific section you need is: d-i mirror/country string manual d-i mirror/http/hostname string archive.ubuntu.com d-i mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu d-i mirror/http/proxy string http://@@server@@:8000/ If you're doing more than one install, and have a spare system with some disk space, I highly recommend a squid proxy and using the above to point the installer at the proxy. Its a very easy way to get psuedo-lan speeds. You can specify a pre-seed at the prompt if you're doing a manual install, by adding 'url=<some-url>'. If you're doing install to real hardware, then that might be the easiest way. Just set up a bit.ly url for some server you have a http running on, and use: url=http://bit.ly/your-nickname-here Further reading http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2012/01/ubuntu-quick-installation-preseed-link.html -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
