Richard Owlett wrote: > I am running Stretch that was fully updated/upgraded less than a week > ago. I have the flash drive used to do the original install of Stretch. > I have not _intentionally_ purged any files from cache. > > I wish to install Stretch on two additional machines. I am near my > internet data cap and wish to make *ABSOLUTE MINIMAL* usage of available > bandwidth. > > The purpose of this is to test the _installation process_ itself. That > eliminates anything resembling cloning. A secondary benefit will be > learning more about how Debian does things. > > Suggestions?
you have already downloaded the files and they are in the cache, i see no reason why they could not be reused. have you looked at fai? (fai-doc, fai-client, fai-server, etc.) songbird