Extra CDs!!!

[h.engemann at basicartstudios.de]

Darren Critchley wrote:

> paris wrote:
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>> How can I make a CD with all the packages that I have downloaded so it
>> is possible to use that CD from synaptic. It is just that I want to
>> install Ubuntu to a computer with no internet conection and also add to
>> it all my extra packages.
>>
>> Alexis Paris (Viva Ubuntu!!!)
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> I would have said take the files from your archive and burn them to cd 
> and then add that cd into your synaptic, but I think it would need 
> some index of some sort to make it work, hopefully someone more in the 
> know could tell us how.
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> Darren
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when i have to install a new machine I copy the content of 
/var/cache/apt/archives to a different partition,
and after the new installation i copy them back to the new folder and 
than run apt-get dist-upgrade.
saves much bandwidth

greetings