On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 01:39:59PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <aanlktim15i1a7pckkoitxjsdqjyjaks4ctfzku6ct...@mail.gmail.com>, RR wrote: > >this may be a very obvious one of those things that I should just "Google" > >but given my last experience, and unsuccessful Googling, I figured maybe I > >should ask the community as to what the CORRECT way to install Debian on a > >Sun machine such that it uses the ISO/Distribution on my local NFS server as > >opposed to just picking up the boot.img and then have the rest of it be > >downloaded from the Internet. I have a LOT of SUN machines to install and > >it'd be cool if I can just install them off the distro on the nfs server. > > Rather than using NFS, it would be easier to use HTTP to serve your debian > mirror, prehaps using approx or a similar apt proxy. During the install you > should be asked which Debian mirror to use. Input the proper hostname and > base url and all packages pulled in by APT will be via that mirror. > I use apt-cacher-ng and I'm pretty happy with it. It was easy to set up. When I do a net install on a machine on my LAN, I just tell the installer that my proxy is:
http://myproxy:3142 If you already have debs downloaded, there is even a procedure documented to import those into your apt-cacher-ng. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110202221205.gc10...@aurora.owens.net
