Re: [LUG] Install day - apt-cacher-ng

[tom <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Ray wrote:
> On 12/05/10 10:13, tom wrote:
> > I've just done an install of Ubuntu Desktop 10.04 using mini.iso and 
> > apt-cacher-ng locally and it took ~ 25 minutes. Not bad when you 
> > consider the the first upgrade took 11 hours over 512k.
> > This is on an old (1.2GHz machine) so it might be a lot quicker on a 
> > new one!
> > How long does it take to install fresh from CD?
> > Tom te tom te tom
> Not bad! A fresh install of the alternate 64bit desktop took me all in 
> all about 2hrs on an Athlon X2 4800+ and a 20MB pipe.
>
> Joe
And quite a bit of the download time was to go and get all the mono and 
other rubbish that I'd deleted from the one machine I'd upgraded  - and 
apt-cacher seems to have dumped as well - good for it sort of...
Tom te tom te tom

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