On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 08:45:39AM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote: > > On May 12, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: >> >> Though, I doubt that the OP will care if he's installing Linux from a >> single LiveCD or from an installation DVD. (I would assume that if >> he's >> talking about multiple machines, the DVD version will be far less >> bandwidth hog) > > > > Actually it does not matter. Just about all of the modern distros > dowload their add ons or updates to a staging directory.
The Debian installer (and IIRC aalso the Ubuntu one) use the package manager to install all but the (tiny) base system. > Some of them > have cleanup set to run by cron, some never clean up, waiting for you to > do it manually. Network installer + apt cacher of some sort is even more bandwidth-efficient. For instance, it will also cache security updates. This also allows you to easily define the set of packages you want. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
