[YLUG] Installfest stuffs

Thomas Hayward nessieliberation at gmail.com
Tue Sep 30 16:28:25 UTC 2008


On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Alex Howells wrote:

> 2008/9/30 Arthur Clune <arthur at clune.org>:
>>
>> There's an ubuntu mirror on campus if you just want to use that (we use
>> it for our internal stuff but there's no reason why you shouldn't
>> install from
>> it)
>>
>> http://mirror.york.ac.uk/
>
> 403 Forbidden
>
> Does it restrict to University of York prefixes only?  I think the
> suggestion for a local mirror was more "in case" we had no network
> connectivity to the outside world on the day, else we can use public
> mirrors?
>
> It might still be an idea to use an apt-cache, if not a full blown
> mirror. A lot of the packages involved are likely to be the same and
> there's no reason to download the same darn content 20x over to get
> people up and running.
>
> Alex

when connected to the uni vpn, I'm still getting 403

Tom



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