On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:43:18 Paul Jakma wrote:
> or even run it from cron at night with apt on the workstations
> configured to only use a central server as their source. so you test
> out the packages first, then put them on the central server and
> bang..
A good proxy server sorts that out for you. There is a package called
apt-cache. It's a very nifty idea where you point all your machines to it
and it gets packages as they're requested, but pulls them from a cache if
it's gotten them already. Unfortunately it's still in early development
and suffers from some very annoying timeout errors.
> uhmmmm... where does i gets me one of thar new fangled debian things?
If you've got a fast net connection, grab the boot disks from the
ftp.esat.net mirror and go from there (tell the install that you live in
ireland and it'll set your sources.list to look at ftp.esat.net for
packages), otherwise there's:
http://www.cruithne.org/cds.html
Martin.
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