[Tfug] Debian install from a local fileserver

[Richard Rohrdanz]

Ken,

I will try it. But I have one HUGE question. How do you know those
settings? How can I find out those settings myself without asking
other people? Several people have told me that Google is my friend. I
tried for 2 hours this morning going through some of the 63,000
entries in Google that contained the words:
debian install fileserver

None of them were helpful.


On 2/7/06, ken fancher <kfancher at nerdshack.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 12:44 -0700, ken fancher wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 11:15 -0700, Richard Rohrdanz wrote:
> > > I need to be able to install Debian on several computers. My
> > > connection is not fast enough to do installs via the Internet. I would
> > > prefer to use a local fileserver (NFS?) so that I don't have to
> > > shuffle CDs.
> > >
> > > I booted from CD #1 and got to the screen where it asks where 'apt'
> > > should get the packages from. I selected 'fileserver'. The next screen
> > > asked for the mirror and had the text '/debian' pre-positioned as a
> > > response. On my LAN I have a Fedora installation running NFS. The
> > > Debian ISO images are located on that machine in  /install/DebianISOs.
> > > What should I use for the mirror name?
> > >
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> > your probobly going to have to extract the iso's like it would be on the
> > mirrors cause it searches the pool directory for the apps but it should
> > be smb://ipaddy/install/debian if your nfs is useing samba if not then
> > protocol://ipaddy/install/debian and to "extract" them you have to mount
> > -t iso9660 -o loop /home/blah/whatever.iso /cdrom or /mnt wherever you
> > want it to mount and cp -rf */ then cp *./ to /install/debian
> >
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> sorry not cp *./ its cp *.*
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