Re: Re: UBUNTU Server without Network?
  By: F. W. to All on Tue Mar 16 2021 08:30 am

 > Am 12.03.2021 um 11:04 schrieb The Natural Philosopher:
 > 
 > >> I tried UBUNTU Server 64 Bit to build an intranet server. It starts
 > >> without Network-Tools (f. e. ifconfig). I am associated to install
 > >> sudo apt-get net-tools - okay, but without any network?
 > >>
 > >> How can one build a server without any network?
 > >>
 > >> FW
 > 
 > > By downloading the entire ubuntu repository onto a disk?
 > 
 > Without Internet?
 > 
 > > Where did you get the installation code to start with?
 > 
 > Rasperry Imager
 > 
 > > How are you posting here without Internet?
 > 
 > I own seven computers...not just one ;-)
 > 
 > > Or is the question how do you bootstrap onto the network from a bare
 > > install?
 > 
 > Yes, I did not know that "ip" is also possible...gave it just a try.
 > 
 > Thanx
 > 
 > FW

For the record, you used to be able to purchase the Ubuntu and Debian
repositories as a DVD collection from the Internet. You
would then load the indexes in your package manager and install the softweare
in a more or less automated way using the package
managers and your DVDs.

You can replicate such deployment using a hard drive and installing a trivial
repository there.

There was also a tool (whose name I don't remember) that was designed to be
installed in a pen-drive. You would take your
pen-drive to a computer with internet and tell the too installed in the pen
drive that you wanted to install $whatever in an
offline machine. The tool would download all the dependencies and packages and
save them, so when you got back to your off-line
computer, you had everything that was needed to perform your install. The tool
was also smart and didn't download dependencies
if it knew the off-line computer already had them installed.

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