Re: Installing bookworm on an old HP laptop
On Mon, 9 Sep 2024 15:32:19 +0200
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 07:17:37AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> > 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 [...]
>
> > To solve this problem, I use apt-proxy-ng on my firewall. It
> > improves response times considerably once a package is in its
> > cache.
>
> That would be apt-cacher-ng (or approx).
I sit corrected. Thank you.
> That said -- yes, I do use
> apt-cacher-ng (especially when experimenting with VM installations
> and images for small things (RPis and their ilk).
>
>
> > 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.
>
> I actually set the Acquire::http[s]::proxy thing in some
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d file manually (and throw that away once done).
> For me, it turned out to be the most hassle-free option.
And that is how it should be done. Maybe d-i is in need of a bug
report. I'll look into that.
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