Brisbane Install Fest

[Jared Norris]

On 31 December 2011 16:31, George Patterson <george.patterson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 31 December 2011 17:27, Jared Norris <jrnorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 31 December 2011 16:24, Cary Bielenberg <cary at bielenberg.id.au> wrote:
>>> If you set up a server with lamp & put the files in the root of the /var/www
>>> ( change ownership of the files to www-data) then in your source.list have
>
>>
>> Would a symlink work? I don't have the hard drive space on my laptop
>> (It's a 1.6ghz Celeron M with a 50gb hdd) so it would have to stay on
>> the USB drive.
>>
>
> Yes, a symlink could work. Otherwise add a location stanza with a
> DirectoryAlias (I think that is the correct term) to point to the real
> location.
>
> It's under an hours work if comfortable with Apache. I'd offer to do
> it but I couldn't get there.
>
> Regards
>
>
> George

So would it be worth trying to set this server up properly as a dhcp
and dns server now (I have lamp installed on lubuntu 11.10 now) or
just bring along a router and use it as a DHCP server and point the
ubuntu repo to the local machine?

I'm pretty sure I can make the server work as a repository using
http://popey.com/blog/2006/10/24/Creating_an_Ubuntu_repository_mirror_with_apt-mirror/
but it's the other magic I'm not sure of.

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Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris