[ubuntu-in] Fwd: Setting up local apt-get repository ? - Any more tips

Ramnarayan.K ramnarayan.k at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 12:07:56 GMT 2008


On Feb 7, 2008 5:23 PM, Mehul Ved <mehul.n.ved at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Feb 7, 2008 5:15 PM, Ramnarayan. K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there some way i can mimic the cd's on the hard disk and that apt
> accepts
> > this mimic.
>
> run apache, rsync from some mirror, then modify /etc/apt/sources.list
> to point to
> your local apache server. But, it would be waste of resources IMO to
> do this just for
> sake of 1-2 PC's, if you have more then it makes sense, I guess.


i have the entire Ubuntu 7.10 repository on dvd's and want to be able to
access them without having to keep popping in the dvd's everytime something
needs to be installed. (the source device would be an extenal usb hard disk)

ram
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