Re: Have I downloaded the right disk set?

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

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On Sunday 27 Apr 2003 7:28 am, Wm.G.McGrath wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm just getting around to installing 3.0r1 and in looking at the
> cds I see the following in my /etc/apt/sources.list when I do an
> apt-cdrom -add:
>
> deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 Update CD 20030109: i386]/ woody
> contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main non-US/non-free non-free deb
> cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7
> (20021218)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb


I am no expert, but it looks as though you have some unstable disks there.  

Just a question.  Why bother downloading all the cd's. If you have a network 
connection good enough for that, why not just do a network install.  That 
way, you only download as much as you need (which is a lot less than the full 
set of cds - in fact it could be less than one cd)

If you have a lot of machines to install on and they are network connected, 
take a look at apt-proxy.  This allows one machine to maintain an automatic 
mirror of those packages that they all use - so you download only once.  All 
the other machines point at the apt-proxy address in thier sources.list files 
(actually I point the apt-proxy machine at its own proxy address too so that 
files it uses fill the mirror).














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Alan Chandler
alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk
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