Ubuntu blues

[Rémi Cardona]

nuopus wrote:
 > All I can say is try it. In a virtual machine or a spare partition ...
 > try performing a new installation and say YES to download from the
 > internet ... it will download all of the packages that are part of
 > ubuntu-desktop. Try it again and this time say NO to download from the
 > Internet .. it will get it from the local cache this time. When you add
 > the repos and update then upgrade it will only download a fraction of
 > what it would have dowloaded if you said YES.
 >
 > The installer I think copies the debs into a cache directory as part
 > of the installer ... but if it is re-downloading the stuff from the
 > Internet the copy during the installer stage is a waste of time.

I noticed pretty much the same issue on two different installs, but it's 
hard to actually come up with numbers unless I set up a proxy on my 
router (or something else).

Perhaps a bug should be filled or let's continue this discussion in 
another thread as this one outgrew my thunderbird window :)

Rémi