Re: Preparations for installing a Farm
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 Potato. One of these is "at",
> which is part of the base distribution. My mirror is already
> 8G and I really don't want to add another 5 to that to mirror
> Potato as well. Does anybody have any idea how to get around
> this?
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.
BTW: can't you just install one machine properly and then
copy the whole disk to the others? I don't know how many
things need to be set differently, but if it's just a few you could
maybe produce a shell-script that queries the necessary info
from your 'muppet'.
Maybe that's a silly idea...
cu,
Schnobs
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