Hoary net install half works

Fri Mar 18 20:20:18 CST 2005

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 19:58 -0600, Carl Karsten wrote:
> So I hit enter, and a new dialog on a red backgroud:
> The title of the dialog is the same: [!!] Choose a mirror of the Ubuntu 
> archive
> <body>
> Bad archive mirror
> The specified Ubuntu archive m not available, or does not have a valid 
> release file on it.  Please try a different mirror.
> Go Back  Continue
> </body>
> (nother screen shot of that message: 
> http://dev.personnelware.com/carl/temp/e/p1010009.jpg )

This sounds like a bug that was previously reported and recently fixed
(I have not verified that it has, though).  Check Bugzilla.

> I am going to try to mount the CD on my local apache and see if I can't 
> work around it.  Will report back if I get something.

You can't use an ISO to do netboot installs!  I banged my head on the
same thing for hours. :P  I think there's an article on the wiki about
netboot.  I should update it...

If you're going to do netboot installs you'll need to mirror the
repository.  I recommend installing debmirror and syncing against a
rsync server.