[wellylug] updating vs bandwidth

Cliff Pratt enkidu at cliffp.com
Sun Mar 7 10:39:38 NZDT 2010


Atom Smasher 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.
> 
First question - look at apt-proxy or similar.

Second question - not that I know of, but others may be able to help.

Cheers,

Cliff



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