New to Ubuntu and need to have offline repository server

[Adam McGreggor]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:50:36PM +1100, Roberto de Sousa wrote:
> Dear all,
> Could someone help me please.
> 
> Here is what i wanted to do and i do not where to start and where to find instruction on how to do it.
> 
> I wanted to build a laptop with ubuntu repository server on it so that i can carry it around and install ubuntu (gutsy) without having to connect it to internet. It is almost impossible to get internet connection in East Timor and even i have access to it.. it's very slow. I frequently travel to many places in East Timor and most of the place that i visit have no internet access at all. I was wondering if i could use my laptop as a repository server and have other PC connected to it and build the ubuntu.
> 
> what should i do? i do not wanted to carry the CD around... and it would be great if i can have multiple installation at the same time.
> 

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Rsyncmirror looks (on a quick glance)
of what I've done...

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Debmirror looks like it might be of
some use too, and there's
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mirrors, apparently.

(40 secs on google, with "ubuntu rsync mirror" as my search)

Short answer is you'll need a *lot* of disk-space, in the first instance a
decent web-connexion, and then, you'll prob want to update (regularly)
the mirror you've got.

What I would say is if you are doing a rsync download, you might want to run
it through screen(1).