Jul 23
Looks like my Xen hacking has been delayed TYAW (till yet another weekend). I just got a Dom0 installed and was bootstrapping another install to use as a template for DomUs when the Ubuntu servers went out. At first, I thought it was the network because it was hit and miss. Then after about 10 minutes of that, it was a solid miss. They are still offline today.
The command that will not work:
debootstrap –include=language-pack-en,wget,openssh-server –verbose \
–arch i386 dapper installdir http://archive.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu
I’m glad it wasn’t *real* work I was trying to get done. I guess it’s time to setup my own apt-get mirror. Anyone know how that would be done on Ubuntu?
July 23rd, 2006 at 8:41 pm
I use the xmission mirrors for my repos. Since I’m on the Utopia network it makes any upgrading/installing that much faster! Below is a copy of my sources.list using the Xmission mirror if you want to try that. (To mirror the repos yourself requires something like 100G of packages…)
# Ubuntu supported packages (packages, GPG key: 437D05B5)
deb http://mirrors.xmission.com/ubuntu dapper main restricted
deb http://mirrors.xmission.com/ubuntu dapper-updates main restricted
deb http://mirrors.xmission.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
# Ubuntu community supported packages (packages, GPG key: 437D05B5)
deb http://mirrors.xmission.com/ubuntu dapper universe multiverse
deb http://mirrors.xmission.com/ubuntu dapper-updates universe multiverse
deb http://mirrors.xmission.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe multiverse
(note: my sources.list doesn’t include the deb-src as I do little compiling, but if you need those just repeat each above line beginning with deb-src.)
July 23rd, 2006 at 8:57 pm
Wow, good tip! Thanks!