Install Ubuntu without net connection

[Rob Weir]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:13:36AM +0800, John said
> Plan B is enable all the repositories, and then something like
> apt-get -y --print-uris install kde | awk /^\' {print \$1 } >toget
> 
> and at the Sbox
> wget -i toget -P Ubuntu
> dpkg-scanpackages # read the docs
> 
> You will need to refine the wget options, and check everything else.
> 
> You can burn the Ubuntu directory to CD, copy to a USB drive or 
> whatever. Email or scp the list.
> 
> There is a Debian package to do this, and probably it makes a proper 
> repository out of it. Which is more-or-less what dpkg-scanpackages does.

apt-zip's the package you're thinking of, I think.

-rob

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