Re: Installing bookworm on an old HP laptop
I concur with the netinst suggestions.
On Mon, 09 Sep 2024 21:10:15 +1000
George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> wrote:
> Sometimes I download the DVD because, over time, I will install a
> number of times (for example, install a number of VMs to compare the
> various GUIs), but I have found that by the time I get to use the
> DVD, there are later minor versions out, hence quite a number of
> packages have been updated or upgrades since I did the download, such
> that I wonder if I would have been better off using the netinstall CD.
To solve this problem, I use apt-proxy-ng on my firewall. It improves
response times considerably once a package is in its cache.
I also install auto-apt-proxy to automate finding proxies. Two
thoughts, though.
* If you use your own DNS server, have a CNAME apt-proxy for the
caching machine.
* The netinst installer, d-i, will let you use a local cache. Do so. But
if you do, d-i adds a configuration line to /etc/apt/apt.conf to point
to the proxy. This may interfere with auto-apt-proxy, so I remove it.
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