Re: Making new installations

2004-06-08 Thread Lucas Albers
Vineet Kumar said: > If you'll be running multiple debian machines at a site, I > highly recommend apt-proxy. Configure one machine as an apt > proxy and point all of the other machines' sources.list at > it. Then you only download each package once, on demand > (rather than creating a whole loc

Re: Making new installations

2004-06-04 Thread Adam Aube
Ross Boylan wrote: > Sorry, I was unclear. There's only one box involved, with different > partitions. Still, perhaps apt-proxy will offer some clues. > > Ideally, I could just point all my versions of the OS at the same apt > files (at least if they are approximatelly similar versions of apt)

Re: Making new installations

2004-06-04 Thread Ross Boylan
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:35:58AM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040604 > 09:36]: > > I have an installed Debian system, and am interested in making some > > more. I'm interested in both new installs and chroots. I realize > > these may have somewhat different

Re: Making new installations

2004-06-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])[20040604 09:36]: > I have an installed Debian system, and am interested in making some > more. I'm interested in both new installs and chroots. I realize > these may have somewhat different solutions. > > As for making a new install, I see two options: I can ru

Making new installations

2004-06-04 Thread Ross Boylan
I have an installed Debian system, and am interested in making some more. I'm interested in both new installs and chroots. I realize these may have somewhat different solutions. As for making a new install, I see two options: I can run the debian installer or deboostrap. Are there other options