On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 03:12:54PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 13:41:31 +0000, Holger Levsen > <hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 09:38:29AM -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> Personally, I would only ever download a DVD image if I was on a *slow* > >> connection and knew that I had to install to multiple machines. > > > >still then, I would rather use netinst plus a proxy… > > Thinking this further, we should probaby have an > Install-Debian-on-multiple-machines virtual appliance / live USB image > with a DHCP/tftp/http server and a proxy to install more than one > Debian system with network boot on a site with bad connectivity. That > way, one would only transfer the barely necessary amount of software, > and only once.
Sounds good! CDs/DVDs have gone the way of the dodo, and while writing an iso image to an USB stick works, there's fully writeable medium underneath. Thus, using a rw file system and apt-cacher-ng (or even bind-mounted /var/cache/apt/archives) would do the trick. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ A tit a day keeps the vet away. ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ (Rejoice as my small-animal-murder-machine got unbroken after ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ nearly two years of no catch!)
