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Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage

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On 06/13/2017 11:48 AM, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 13 Jun 2017 at 09:20:43 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> I am running Stretch that was fully updated/upgraded less than
>> a week ago. I have the flash drive used to do the original
>> install of Stretch. I have not _intentionally_ purged any files
>> from cache.
>
> The cache will contain those files the installer got for you when
> you selected and installed software, plus anything else you obtained
> after the first reboot. For the sake of example let us suppose you
> installed the mate desktop and the standard utilities.

That is my intention. I don't recall all of what I chose during the 
original install, but what I intend is guaranteed to be no more than the 
original.

>
> The cache will not contain files from the base system, but that
> doesn't matter because they are in the installer image, as is GRUB.
> The standard system utilities are also in the image; no bandwidth
> penalty there.
>
>> I wish to install Stretch on two additional machines. I am near
>> my internet data cap and wish to make *ABSOLUTE MINIMAL* usage
>> of available bandwidth.
>
> I've not completely thought this through but you definitely would not
> want to use the select and install software option, apart from leaving
> standard utiliites ticked. You also would not want a network mirror
> but, unless you are going to use sneakernet, you will want networking
> in order to be able to connect to your primary machine.

I generally favor sneakernet whenever possible. I neglected to mention 
that I do not currently have a LAN. The time may have come.

>
>> The purpose of this is to test the _installation process_ itself.
>> That eliminates anything resembling cloning. A secondary benefit
>>will be learning more about how Debian does things.
>
> After rebooting, create $HOME/debian and copy all the debs in
> the cache on the primary machine to it. I think dpkg-scanpackages
> (in the dpkg-dev package) might also have to be run. Your
> sources.list will have the single line "deb file......" ; see the
> sources.list manual for details.
> After that it's the usual apt-get update etc, etc.
>

I wasn't sure of details, but I think my mental image has been a 
reasonable approximation of reality. We'll see.
Thanks.

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Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-06-13 16:30 +0200
  Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-06-13 16:50 +0200
    Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-06-13 18:40 +0200
      Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-06-13 19:30 +0200
        Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-06-13 20:00 +0200
          Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith  useage Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2017-06-13 20:20 +0200
            Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-06-14 16:00 +0200
              Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-06-14 20:00 +0200
                Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-06-15 13:30 +0200
                Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-06-15 16:10 +0200
                Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-06-15 16:20 +0200
                Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-06-15 17:40 +0200
          Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-06-13 20:30 +0200
            Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-06-13 20:40 +0200
              Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-06-13 20:50 +0200
              Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-06-13 21:10 +0200
              Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-06-14 01:00 +0200
  Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-06-13 18:50 +0200
    Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-06-13 19:30 +0200
      Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-06-13 23:20 +0200
        Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-06-15 20:40 +0200
          Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-06-16 17:20 +0200
            Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-06-16 19:50 +0200
  Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-06-13 23:40 +0200
  Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-06-15 19:10 +0200
    Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith useage Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-06-15 19:40 +0200
  Status Re: Installing Stretch/Testing with absolute minimal bandwith  useage Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-06-20 16:20 +0200

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