On 8 Nov 2001, at 12:12, Paul Sargent wrote: > Hi People, > > I'm currently in the process of preparing to install several > Debian boxes which will be used to form a processing farm. I'm > therefore looking for ways to ease the installation so that it's
> several packages linked over to Potato. One of these is "at", > which is part of the base distribution. My mirror is already > 8G and I really don't want to add another 5 to that to mirror > Potato as well. Does anybody have any idea how to get around > this? I'm an utter newbie myself, but... last night I've seen a package that promises to build a local mirror from /var/apt/cache. I think it's called apt-move (not sure, try apt-* if that's wrong). Maybe that helps. BTW: can't you just install one machine properly and then copy the whole disk to the others? I don't know how many things need to be set differently, but if it's just a few you could maybe produce a shell-script that queries the necessary info from your 'muppet'. Maybe that's a silly idea... cu, Schnobs
