Software Repository Mirror

Preparing the Hard Drive

In the directions below we will assume that you have a brand new hard drive. We will be formatting the hard drive (partition) which means that all of the data on the hard drive will be lost. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE DOING IN EACH STEP

To format the partition, we will first need to set the partition type

Change Hard Drive Partition Type

To format the hard drive, we need to know what its "device" name is. Ubuntu should automatically mount the hard drive should automatically once you plug it in. To determine run the command: <source lang='bash'> mount | grep media </source> Running this on my machine, I see output

/dev/sdb1 on /media/3539-6663 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks)

Which means the /dev/sdb1 is the partition we will need to use.

If you see more than one line in the output then STOP as these directions may not be correct. If you see more than one line here, you probably have more than one external hard drive or flash disk connected. Remove all extra hard drive and rerun the "grep" command. If you still see more than one line, Please contact one of the of the iHRIS developers for more help.

Labelling the hard drive

Now we want to make a lablel for our newly formatted hard drive so that we can refer to it easily later:

sudo tune2fs -L ihris /dev/sdb1

Creating the Software Repository

sources.list

The file /etc/apt/sources.list tells apt-get where to look for software packages to install.

We will want to have two versions of the sources.list file. One that will use the hard drive (sources.list.harddrive) and one that will use the internet (sources.list.internet). You will need to create a file /etc/apt/sources.list.harddrive

sources.list.internet

The default ubuntu installation assumes that you are connected to the interent. So we will simply copy the existing /etc/apt/sources.list to sources.list.internet

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.internet

sources.list.hardrive

We now need to create a version of the sources.list that will use the hard drive.

echo "deb file:///media/ihris/" `lsb_release -cs` "main universe " | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.harddrive

Using the Software Repository

sources.list

deb file:/usb_drive/ubuntuMirror/mirror oneiric main