[Ambassadors] Portable mirror?

Larry Cafiero larry.cafiero at gmail.com
Mon Oct 25 00:19:06 UTC 2010


Scott --

By "box," what exactly are we talking about. Just a desktop? If so, I think
I can supply one on behalf of Fedora for use at SCALE.

Larry Cafiero

2010/10/24 Scott Williams <vwfoxguru at gmail.com>

>  Chris,
>
> They were wanting to have something on site for the LAN.  Last year the
> network was very overtaxed so they wanted local mirrors rather than everyone
> hitting outside mirrors.  Ideally either we can bring a box to act as a
> server during the event or we could upload a somewhat recent mirror sync to
> their server prior to the event.
>
> ~Scott
>
>
> On 10/24/2010 02:19 AM, Christopher Hawker wrote:
>
> Hello Scott,
>
> I work with a web hosting company, I can talk to them about running a
> global mirror for the new Fedora 14 images, if you believe it is beneficial.
>
> Regards,
> Christopher Hawker
>
> Mobile: +61 450 556 200
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Scott Williams <vwfoxguru at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>   On 10/23/2010 11:03 PM, Scott Williams wrote:
>> >  We have a request from SCaLE:
>> >
>> > "we're looking to provide a distro. mirror on site during the show, do
>> > you think Fedora as a group would be able to provide a machine, NAS
>> > device or media (DVDs, USB, etc.)?"
>> >
>> > A Fedora 14 DVD/USB would suffice, but for the sake of a mirror this
>> > is not an ideal medium.  Would we be able to bring a dedicated box to
>> > serve Fedora mirrors on LAN at the event?
>> >
>> > ~Scott Williams (vwbusguy)
>>
>>  Actually, looks like they will have a server.  I (or someone) could
>> rsync ahead of time and upload the mirror contents when we get there.
>>
>> ~Scott (vwbusguy)
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