RE: unofficial mirror
On 30-Jun-2000 Christopher Thompson wrote:
> I plan on installing Debian on three computers this weekend. I
> have a cable modem but limited download bandwidth and so I'd
> like to set up a temporary mirror just for the weekend.
>
> So I'm curious... how much disk space should I set aside to
> mirror potato for i386 machines?
>
install on one computer (or go to an existing debian box). run dpkg
--get-selections > file. Each line that ends in 'install' is an installed
package. You only need to actually mirror what you use. Which can be a mirror
from around 50mb to 300mb. All of potato is nearly 2gb.
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