[Fwd: Re: Edubuntu: Gallium vs. Kalzium]

[William Kinghorn]

Hi All,

What I do.

I don't create the DVDs for myself, I run the first script, which puts the repositories on my hard drive, which I then copy onto an USB hard drive ( portable hard drive to some of you guys ), I then copy this onto my other PCs, then I add this line to my sources.list file

deb file:/backups/ubuntu dapper main restricted multiverse universe

This way means that you don't need any other DVDs ( other than the install CD ), everything will be on hard drive

This setup is perfect for me, as I don't have internet access at home.

This will work for ( I think ) all versions that Ubuntu supports, ie Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.

Another thing is that you need ( for Dapper with the above repositories ) aprox 12Gig of hard drive space.

For the guys who want to create the DVDs, then you need aprox 36 Gigs of space, as the scripts create first the repositories ( aprox 12 Gig ) then DVD sized directories ( aprox 12 Gigs ) then the ISOs ( also aprox 12 Gigs ) which adds up to aprox 36 Gigs.

I only had 20 Gigs on my internal hard drive, so I changed the scripts to do the DVD sized directories and ISOs on my USB hard drive

Hope this helps

William

>>> Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> 10/02/06 2:38 PM >>>
hi,
Am Montag, den 02.10.2006, 14:30 +0200 schrieb Edward Holcroft:

> Is the same thing possible for Edubuntu? Ideally of course, official 
> support for something like this is needed.
as i pointed out in my answer to william, we're bound to launchpad with
the CD building, we use the debian-cd script that already allows to
build on multiple CDs, its a minor change to enable it ...

also note that we offer DVDs for download since the beginning of
edubuntu ...

the current one can be found here:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/dvd/current/
it contains 3.6G of software from main including all language packs we
have.

(and before the question comes up, maintaining universe DVDs in the
official archive is out of question)

ciao
	oli