Getting updated (was: Re: [plug] Woody on 7 CDs!? Why?)

[Gavin Rogers]

At 21:21 23/07/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:11, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> > So, is there a list somewhere of what is on each CD? ^_^
>
>Well... there might be a CD somewhere... (-:

The parity CD ?

I administer a dozen debian boxes at work, and 3 at home - its worth noting 
that if you have a proxy server local to your network and you use the 
ftp/http install get apt-get to use your proxy server -

export http-proxy="http://proxy:8080"
export ftp-proxy="http://proxy:8080"

The proxy server will cache the package indexes and most packages are 
common (locales, libc6 etc) making updating a lot of machines will not a 
lot of bandwidth a slightly more bearable experience :-)

So even if you don't think you have the internet bandwidth available to you 
to keep everything up to date, you still might not need the CDs...

Gavin.



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