[Tfug] Debian install from a local fileserver

[ken fancher]

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 13:34 -0700, Richard Rohrdanz wrote:
> 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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how do i know what the flags for mount or the samba stuff i dont know
man pages been useing linux for a fairly long time irc and google are
great resources just gotta really define your search with google be more
specific use quotes and + and - such as debian+fileserver+install
-internet +nfs or "debian fileserver install" and google isint speedy i
look through assloads of links before i find what im looking for usually
though but if you want like immidiate help check out irc
irc.freenode.net #tfug if you can at work/home