[wellylug] updating vs bandwidth

[Jeff Hunt]

Not quite sure if I have the issue but what I do with two machines in
the house and supporting friends.

1. keep the original cd and also make a bootable usb (much quicker and
easier if the machine is usb bootable)

2. When one machine is updated copy the update debs off of
/var/cache/apt/archives and transfer them to the same directory in
other machine. Then do a standard update (I use update manager) and
there will be zero donwloads. Apt will find the debs already present
and behave correctly. Apt-get clean will empty the cache after the
updating if you wish.

I actually keep two machines up to date on dialup by doing this.

On 3/6/10, Atom Smasher <atom at smasher.org> wrote:
> here in the land of slow/metered bandwidth, what's a good way to keep
> ubuntu up to date with more than one installation?
>
> also, if there's one system that's already up to date (and fairly generic,
> same cpu), is there a convenient way to create installation media from
> that? without downloading a new CD? i suppose i could clone the HD... but
> that doesn't seem like the best way when the hardware is different and i'm
> not really looking to clone the original.
>
> thanks...
>
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