[wellylug] updating vs bandwidth

[Jeff Hunt]

I believe that you always need the basic iso of about 700megs, even
when you make a bootable usb drive (or cd of course).
This is not usually a problem. People tend to be generous with cd(s)
and burned iso (s) and there are enough of us these days to get one
from someone close. Even if you find a skeletal system that you can
download you still need all the extras eventually. Probably easiest is
to bring yourself up to date with iso and fight the battle from there.
I have kept a copy of all updates for 9.10 for the reasons I said before.
I'm in Khandallah, but if you put out a call there is bound to be
someone close who will help.

To David, what is involved in creating an apt-cacher server. Is this
easier than setting up ssh and doing a cli ssh copy as i do?

Cheers.

On 3/6/10, David Antliff <david.antliff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 18:39, 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?
>
> apt-cacher or apt-cacher-ng - works brilliantly. Just modify your
> apt/sources.lst urls to point to your apt-cacher server and the rest
> is magic.
>
> -- David.
>
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