Using Ubuntu or most distros on a low bandwidth Internet connection (dial-up) becomes a pain. For example you need to have an Internet connection to get those restricted extras which allow you to play that huge library of MP3 files you have going. Although the following isn’t going to help you make your dial-up download stuff at the speed of a T3. It will definitely help you in backing up all the stuff you already have on your computer or help you in getting the files installed on your friend’s computer.
APTonCD helps you to make backups of those files you already have downloaded or restore files from a computer that has a similar install. Now the first thing you want to know is that you don’t need APTonCD to actually make backups of the files that someone has downloaded already on the machine. However it does make it much easier. I still couldn’t find out why APTonCD is not included by default in Ubuntu.
Now lets install APTonCD and use it.
sudo apt-get install aptoncd
once you have installed APTonCD let me show you how to use this t backup the files you have. First of all I was a dial-up user too when I started with Ubuntu and I got most of my install media from a internet cafe which I took my CPU to. The rest I copied from my friends PC using APTonCD.
I’m going to show you how to do the same using APTonCD. First go to the menu System > Administration > APTonCD .
Theres only two options here that you can use. Either create an APTonCD or restore one. Lets first try creating one. Click on create and you should get the following screen.
You can select the packages you want to backup using APTonCD. The packages you see will most likely vary than the ones you see in the screenshot. using the Add button you can add packages or folders which are at a different location if you please. Once you are done here you can click on Burn. Clicking on Burn brings up the Installation Properties window.
The default options are fine and you can change the name of the image if you want or the location the image file is created on your desktop. Once you click on Apply. You should get the screen displayed below.
At this point it asks you to confirm which CD/DVD Burner program you use. In my case I used the default as shown.
Once you click yes you should get a screen similar to the one shown below.
At this point you can change the Write Speed or the Disc option and then write the image to the Disk. Congratulations you have just finished creating your first APTonCD.
Now to restore the files on another computer. First make sure that you have APTonCD installed on the other computer. Then insert the CD you just created and you should get the following screen.
If you select Package Manager here all the packages within the APTonCD should be installed to your/var/cache/apt/archives folder . now if you select the packages through Synaptic you can see that it wont require that anything be downloaded since it has been copied to your system.
For further information about APTonCD you can visit its homepage here.
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