mirroring for installs

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:08:54PM -0500, Mark Chang wrote:

> The easiest way for me to do that is to burn the discs (easy), and
> start installs. What is the best way to minimize the traffic to
> unbuntu? I'm talking about the big update at the end of the
> installation phase that grabs a bunch of packages.

The best way is to use a caching proxy server, like squid.  Just remember to
tune up the maximum object size in squid.conf; the default is set to a lower
value more appropriate for typical web content.

> I'm happy to mirror the archive, if that'll do it. Just don't know how to
> point the installer at different apt source.

Mirroring the entire archive would use more resources (both yours and ours)
than duplicating the few downloads which occur during the installation; I
recommend against it.

-- 
 - mdz