breezy preseed and mirror settings

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On za, 2005-07-23 at 17:05 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> > On za, 2005-07-23 at 11:07 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>The default may be /ubuntu, but the setting needs to point to the dir
> >>where the files are, which is indeed /ubuntu/breezy:
> > 
> > 
> > Ehrm... the files have to be available from a webserver for d-i mirror
> > 192.168.1.7 to work...
>
> correct. (not sure what your point is here.)

Well, the problem you got was that the installer couldn't find things on
the local mirror. And you never gave info about your webserver setup,
just the mount in the tftpboot dir :)

> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LocalNetInstall gives good info on how to setup
> > such a system. 
> Guess you missed who the author is ;)  Glad to hear it worked for you.

lol :)
I had to do a few things differnetly though, because I needed a
completely unattended install. Which means surviving the
reboot-during-install.

> > I used that + the d-i manual to setup an auto-installing
> > Hoary cluster last week.
> 
> Where is the d-i manual?

(ok it's not a d-i manual but an install guide...)

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hoary/main/installer-i386/current/doc/manual/en/index.html

I am documenting my setup on http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOnCluster
(page needs a lot more work, but I can't access the cluster now)

-- 
Dennis K.
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