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Re: Offline systems



Hi,

mick crane wrote:
> What's the best appropriate means then to fetch mirror and then only fetch
> differences to local copy ? wget does that doesn't it ?

That's indeed an old selling point of Jigdo: No need to download packages
which you already have.

But you need a pair of .jigdo and .template files which Debian produces for
its ISOs in order to get a new download list. And in the end the new ISO
will be as big as if all packages had been downloaded.

Whatever, Jigdo might have a role in this thread.


Peter wrote:
> Do you see any drawbacks if I copy the 3 DVD of Debian 10 on each machine
> initially, mount them and use them if I want to to install something e.g
> nano at some point ?

Should work. But you might get better performance if you unpack the ISO's
"pool" trees into a common "pool" tree on hard disk. One level of mount less.

Jigdo could bring you bigger single ISOs for either of the approaches.
16 GB:  https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-16G/
25 GB:  https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-bd/
50 GB:  https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/jigdo-dlbd/

(I wonder what software ends up in DLBD-2 or BD-4 ...)


Have a nice day :)

Thomas


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