G'day all, a few questions

[David]

this sounds like a bad idea... I'm doing a test install right now, but if
it works out well Ubuntu will go on at least two other machines.

that's lots of wasted bandwidth. Surely there should be an option - delete
or not. On modern systems disc space is not an issue.

David.

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 12:15:02PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 01:03 +0000, kracker at dull.name wrote:
> > > Thanks very much Jeff!
> > > However, in my /var/cache/apt/archives/ I have no .deb packages other than
> > > those I grabbed with synaptic after install.  I can't seem to find the
> > > packages used to install the system anywhere.  I've done search as root
> > > and no luck. Is there any way to save 'em for future installs? Thanks!
> >
> > Hmm. I might have to pass this one to Colin, our installer maestro. :-)
>
> Those packages are deleted after the system has been successfully installed.