Can't get kickstar to change mirror host

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:25:09AM -0700, Scott Chapman wrote:
> I'm doing a net install of 6.06.1 LTS Server.  It's working fairly well but I 
> can't get it to tell the installer to go to my local mirror rather than 
> us.archive.ubuntu.com.  Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  I've been 
> trying all day yesterday to get this working!  I expect I'm missing something 
> obvious.
[...]
> #Root password
> rootpw --iscrypted $1$gpRiqS7i$kIVjvD0SD1ZJg6Gu6s7Kf0

Even though it's crypted, I don't usually recommend posting this
publicly as people can then spend arbitrary amounts of CPU power trying
to find matching plaintext.

> #This should make it use my local mirror but it doesn't work!
> preseed mirror/country string enter information manually
> preseed mirror/http/hostname string 192.168.2.50
> preseed mirror/http/directory string /dapper
> preseed mirror/suite string dapper
> preseed mirror/http/proxy string

Have you tried just using the native Kickstart command for this?

  url http://192.168.2.50/dapper/

> #Package install information
> %packages
> @ ubuntu-standard
> @ openssh-server
> @ postgresql-8.2
> @ postgresql-client-8.2
> @ postgresql-contrib-8.2
> @ mysql-server-5.0
> @ mysql-client-5.0
> @ apache2
> @ apache2-mpm-prefork
> @ apache2-utils

You should drop the leading '@ ' from everything apart from
ubuntu-standard. @ signifies a package group, but most of these are just
packages.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]