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Locutus at 02:31, 7 April 2011

2011-04-07T02:31:52Z

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	=Things that I have learned=		=Things that I have learned=
	For my test 10.04 setup I have made a local copy of the instillation files from deb.linuxmce.org using the firefox extension downloadthemall and put them in my apache2 web server directory. Then, after i run pre-install-from-repo.sh i edit the sources.list and change all the deb.linuxmce.org to the ip address of my web server. This massively decreases the amount of data that you need to download, thus decreasing installation time significantly.

	If ~~anything i say here~~ is ~~not clear feel free~~ to ~~shoot~~ me an email.		== Apt-mirror ==
			I use apt-mirror to hold a local copy of all the repo's used in installation and updating, how i did it are as follows.
			sudo apt-get install apt-mirror
			I'd also install apache if you dont have it already
			sudo nano /etc/apt/mirror.list
			This is the configuration file for apt-mirror. I held all of my files on an external USB HD, i did this because i didnt have an internal HD that was big enough. To mirror everythign for an 10.04 install its about 80 GB!!
			Si uncommented the base path line and i changed it to /media/nameofdrive. I also changed my threads to 50 because i was able to borrow a faster connection to download all of this. The sources I mirrored are:


			After all this is set, run it with:
			sudo apt-mirror
			and wait, on my 200 KB/sec connection it took about 5 days, and on a 1 MB/sec connection it finished in like 26 hrs.

			After thats finished you need to make sym links from your mirror to the apache dir. An example is below, you will have to use 5 links to cover the 5 repo's you mirrored:
			ln -s /media/nameofdrive/apt-mirror/mirror/archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu /var/www/ubuntu

			All thats left is changing your sources.list to your mirror, example below:
			deb http://ipofmirror/linuxmce/ lucid beta2

			Using it w/o apache:
			If you want to just use a USB HD attached to that machine you want to use your mirror on (this is the fastest way to install), then all you do is change your sources.list to a files path, examole below:
			deb file:/media/nameofdisk/apt-mirror/mirror/archive.ubuntu/com/ubuntu/

			if you have any trouble find me on IRC or email me or use google :)

Locutus: added my learnings

2011-02-14T15:28:48Z

added my learnings

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	On the server I run Oracle Virtual Box, with 3 environments loaded: LinuxMCE 0810 core, LinuxMCE 1004 core, LinuxMCE 0810 MD (working on this at time of writing).		On the server I run Oracle Virtual Box, with 3 environments loaded: LinuxMCE 0810 core, LinuxMCE 1004 core, LinuxMCE 0810 MD (working on this at time of writing).

			=Things that I have learned=
			For my test 10.04 setup I have made a local copy of the instillation files from deb.linuxmce.org using the firefox extension downloadthemall and put them in my apache2 web server directory. Then, after i run pre-install-from-repo.sh i edit the sources.list and change all the deb.linuxmce.org to the ip address of my web server. This massively decreases the amount of data that you need to download, thus decreasing installation time significantly.

			If anything i say here is not clear feel free to shoot me an email.

Locutus: Thought i should put up something

2011-02-14T02:07:56Z

Thought i should put up something

New page

=Why I'm Here=
I don't have a house yet but I feel the need to plan for the future, and I can definitely utilizing the functionality that LinuxMCE offers. My programing experience isn't anything formal like a degree or even classes, but over time I have picked up bits and pieces from writing scripts and from web design experience. I hope I can contribute to the community in a meaningful way soon.
=My Development/Testing Setup=
Intel Severboard SE7501HG2
12 GB DDR 266 ECC Registered RAM

The only thing that i would like to ad to this system would be a Nvidia PCI graphics card.

On the server I run Oracle Virtual Box, with 3 environments loaded: LinuxMCE 0810 core, LinuxMCE 1004 core, LinuxMCE 0810 MD (working on this at time of writing).