Creating Mirror-CDs/DVDs for Offline - Installation and - Update

[hagen van rissenbeck]

Chanchao schrieb:

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> I've done a lot of installing/updating over dial-up on Ubuntu and find
> that most updates don't take that much time.

yep, but in some cases... I remember when I used to use a 56k-connection 
some years ago, how long it took to download all the xine-stuff.

> Of course it'd be
> different now that I am more experience and KNOW exactly all the
> things I would like to add on, so that would be a pretty huge
> download. But so far, installing individual apps, they're hardly ever
> bigger than about 10 MB.

...is about one hour...and you know, starting and discovering linux may 
end in a more and more growing number of needed apps


> The problem with repository CD's is that they're fine on the day you
> burn them.  But after some time you're not sure anymore if you have
> the latest/best version of something.

You're right, for that reason:

1.
the update-cds

2.
I would like to follow the release cycle of ubuntu: each six months a 
new cd-set/dvd with the newest version.

I think that could be o.K. - in the meaning of actuality. On one system 
I use a debian sarge dvd from november 2005, and it still happens that 
synaptic asks me for that dvd when I install a new app (new for me and 
my system)

Hagen