Nobuntu

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 23, 2006 • Posted in: Miscellaneous

2 Responses to “Nobuntu”

  1. Christer - July 23, 2006

    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.)

  2. Gabriel - July 23, 2006

    Wow, good tip! Thanks!

Comments are closed for this entry.