how to create an http install environment of Ubuntu

[Tapas Mishra]

Hi,
I am having a situation where I can not use a CD or PxE boot or wubi to
install.
I need to necessarily do an http install of Ubuntu.I am basically trying to
create a guest OS in
a virtualization solution and seems some library of GUI is corrupt due to
which other options other than http are not working.
Here is what I did
1) Download ubuntu 10.04 32 bit ISO
2) Kept it in /var/www (apache2 is running)
3) renamed it to ubuntu.iso

and when I reached a stage where installation begins I gave path
http://localhost/ubuntu.iso
but I got an error saying any installable distribution not found.

4) After this I did
mkdir /var/www/sk

mount -t iso9660 /var/www/ubuntu.iso /var/www/sk -o loop

and this time during the installation I gave path http://localhost/sk
I was able to see the contents in browser http://localhost/sk which you will
see in a normal CD.
But beginning installation I got same error
ValueError: Could not find an installable distribution at '
http://localhost/sk

So I want to just confirm if http install is done only this way or some
other way.


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