[aklug] Re: Downloading Ubuntu 10.10 update.

I was going to suggest this. Along with just doing up your own update
mirror. Ubuntu/Debian has a package just for creating a mirror.

http://apt-mirror.sourceforge.net/

The seem to be similar tools available for Fedora, and I'm sure for any
of the other mainline distros.

-- 
Jim Gribbin <jimgribbin@gmail.com>
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:03 -0700, Michael Figley wrote:
> --- On Tue, 10/19/10, Scott Carnahan <scott@ravenmoonart.com> wrote:
> 
> > Sorry to come across as totally
> > clueless, but I know this can done, and one
> > of the nice folks on the list showed me how, way back in
> > the Ubuntu 6.X
> > days.
> > 
> > I have a large number of 10.04 systems that I want to
> > upgrade, but I have
> > already gotten a notice from my IP that I have been using
> > too much band
> > width. Is there a way to download the update from 10.4 to
> > 10.10 and drop it
> > on a DVD and then just upgrade at will from there?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for any direction. I have one done, but need to do 4
> > more and at 1
> > gig a pop (approx.) it will cause issues with my IP.
> > 
> > Scott
> > 
> 
> 
> This won't help near term but, long term, look at the
> IPCop firewall distro, with the Update Accelerator add-on.
>  
> It caches
> 
> * M$ Updates  ( this is a biggie it you have `doze users )
> * Linux
> * Apple
> * Adobe
> * updates from several AV vendors
> 
> 
> It's somewhat flexible to if you can PERL.
> 
> All that is required is consistent download links.
> 
> 
> My M$ cache is currently at 7.6GB, with data from cache at 79GB!
> 
> This is just from updating a few client's boxes and my son's laptop.
> 
> If you gotta old P3 + 20GB drive lying around, why not make your own Cop?
> ( or put it on VM, and save 30 or 40 watts... )
> 
> Note: 1.4.20 is stable, 1.9x is in test, i have no experience with.
> 
> mikef
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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