On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:25:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Yo
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:18:48AM -0500, John Kuhn wrote:
>
> I think the key is when doing your get-selections use:
>dpkg --get-selections \* > my_selections
>
> Without the '*' dpkg will only list installed packages. With the '*'
> it will also list purged packages.
That works great, Tha
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:18:48AM -0500, John Kuhn wrote:
> I think the key is when doing your get-selections use:
>dpkg --get-selections \* > my_selections
>
> Without the '*' dpkg will only list installed packages. With the '*'
> it will also list purged packages.
True and how easy. Where
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 12:12:03PM +, 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 not going to need lots of
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 03:07:17PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> * Paul Sargent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.08 13:20:21+]:
> > OK, I'll give it a go. Would that be a entry for the testing or stable part
> > of the UK mirror?
>
> stable (i.e. potato)
>
> > > do you purge or delete packages?
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 02:07:17PM -, martin f krafft wrote:
> get the same harddrive size for all, or at least make them all be big
> enough to hold the main system. then you can image one successful
> server, restore the images, and use the remaining space on each space
> for a separate part
* Paul Sargent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.08 13:20:21+]:
> OK, I'll give it a go. Would that be a entry for the testing or stable part
> of the UK mirror?
stable (i.e. potato)
> > do you purge or delete packages?
>
> I tend to purge, trying to keep the system as clean as possible.
good.
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 Po
On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 01:06:23PM -, martin f krafft wrote:
> just add the UK mirror next to yours. then the internet will only be
> used for the potato files. or use a potato CDROM in apt's sources.list
> for potato only.
OK, I'll give it a go. Would that be a entry for the testing or stabl
* Paul Sargent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.11.08 12:12:03+]:
> 1) I'm booting the machine off the current woody rescue/root images
>(ReiserFS ones). Everything works great until it tries to install the
>base distribution. Because my mirror is of Woody and Sid, the
>installation fails
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 not going to need lots of hand
tweeking along the way.
The general setup of the machines will be:
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