Richard Owlett wrote:
I am running Stretch that was fully updated/upgraded less than a week
ago. I have the flash drive used to do the original install of Stretch.
I have not _intentionally_ purged any files from cache.
I wish to install Stretch on two additional machines. I am near my
internet data cap and wish to make *ABSOLUTE MINIMAL* usage of available
bandwidth.
The purpose of this is to test the _installation process_ itself. That
eliminates anything resembling cloning. A secondary benefit will be
learning more about how Debian does things.
Suggestions?
you have already downloaded the files and they
are in the cache, i see no reason why they could not
be reused.
have you looked at fai? (fai-doc, fai-client, fai-server, etc.)