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
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