[Gllug] local debian mirror?

[Mike Brodbelt]

Chris Bell wrote:

>    I would like to be able to take a computer and ethernet mini-hub to a
> site, plug in to local mains, and install on to some computers without
> current access to a local internet connection. I usually need to install on
> to ix86 series computers, but may need to install on IA64 or AMD64 (and
> possibly other) architectures.

The way I do it, which may or may not be appropriate for you it to have 
a machine rsync the debian archive nightly. I run it on a Linksys NSLU2 
with attached 300Gb drive, and it syncs over the DSL, using the Debian 
provided "anonftpsync" script. Packages are made available from it over 
HTTP and FTP, so I just need to stick in in the sources.list for all 
local machines. Personally I just get i386 and source packages, but it's 
trivial to pick the architectures you want.

HTH,

Mike

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