On Wednesday 21 July 2004 17:58, Steve Glines wrote: > Thanks but that doesn't help - The lab I'm building has to be off > line so I need to create the mirror first. With Redhat and SUSE all I > had to do was copy the CD's to an http able location and use a > network install. I can't seem to do that with Debian. I'm very > frustrated.
Please try not to top-post, as it makes following the discussion impossible and also not to take the topic off-list. Someone else might have something valuable to say on your remarks, which would be impossible now that you sent a reply only to me. You talked about a "very limited mirror", which hardly brings to mind making entire CDs available over HTTP. You can achieve what you need with apt-cacher, by importing all the packages of a freshly-installed system and making them available through apt-cacher. At that point, the lab can be off-line, save for the index updates that apt-cacher will check for, every 24 hours or so. To simulate the RH/SuSE way of doing network installs, read the installation manual at the Debian website - it has a very similar, but in no way "slim", method of network installation. Cheers -A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
