Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 1st Apr 2007 15:00 UTC, submitted by falko
"This howto offers a simple way of creating DVD images of Debian or Ubuntu http/ftp repositories. Ubuntu doesn't offer DVDs ready to download with its main, universe, multiverse and/or restricted repositories. With the contents of this howto you can do it yourself. Having the Ubuntu or Debian repositories on DVD can be useful for those users who don't have access to the Internet where they have their Ubuntu installed but have access somewhere else to download the repository and build and burn the DVDs."
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RE: HOWTO is worthless for real world application....
by sb56637 on Mon 2nd Apr 2007 02:06
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Member since:2006-05-11
I agree. Onebase Linux had something like this a few years ago. http://www.ibiblio.org/onebase/onebaselinux.com/Support/transfer-gu... Too bad it's dead now.
RE: HOWTO is worthless for real world application....
by MilesTeg on Mon 2nd Apr 2007 09:17
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Member since:2005-11-14
There were torrents of the repository-DVDs you could download:
http://forum.linux.org.bd/viewtopic.php?p=634
But I don't know if they are still alive. I have used them myself (don't have internet at home) and they work like a charm!
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2005-08-07
We have to install debmirror:
sudo apt-get install debmirror
....and this is why.
The average person who is trying to make a complete local repository to burn on DVD and use offline is unlikely to be using a LINUX machine, they will likely be at the local internet cafe or their public library...usually in those situations there isn't a way to apt-get anything because the machines these users are stuck with a machine running Windows and nine times out of ten those machines are secured by a paper MCE "administrator" who recoils in terror at the mention of Linux.
What would be useful for someone in the situation the summary describes is a Windows program or a method by which the operations discussed in the article could be performed in Windows. So that way the user could grab what files he needs from the repository and take them home for install on say.... oh I dunno... his Linux running Laptop that needs a few files in order to get the thrice %$#@ WiFi to work again and they can continue on from there....
--bornagainpenguin