Common problems with Ubuntu

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 08:45:39AM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
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> On May 12, 2010, at 8:22 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote:
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>> 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)
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>
>
> 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.

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