Re: 7 boxes to debianize
Thus spoke someone (who's name I've stupidly forgotten):
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Subject: upgrading more then one box by downloading the files once!
Date: Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 11:46:59AM +0200
In reply to:Arno Baier
Quoting Arno Baier(arno.baier.linux@aon.at):
> hi folks,
> i have 3 woddy boxes and until now i made for each a upgrade by downloading
> each file three times. now i want to set up x and kde, these are to many
> files to
> download them three times.
> is ther any solution to download the files and store them
> and upgrade the other boxes with these files?
>
> i will not set up an mirror, to low internet connection - to many files !
I have done it 3 ways.
1) Set the /var/cache/apt/archive directory as an NFS dir, mount it on
the system to upgrade.
2) Use ssh. scp the files you want to the other boxen archives
directory. I used this now as it was faster and less work.
3) If you have a cd burner bnd all the system have a cdrom, backup the
archives dir to cd. Option 2 is still faster.
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HTH,
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Mike Pfleger
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Where are they hiding?
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