Re: Launching a Debian Xen Guest using a nfs://.../preseed.cfg fails -- Does required nfs:// support exist?

[Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>]

On Thursday 22 April 2010, Ben DJ wrote:
> Reading @ (are there better / more recent docs?),
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg136362.
>html
> suggests,
>  " ... You can pass a NFS path in the form of nfs://$host/$path/$file
> and network-preseed will mount the NFS share and copy the file to d-i
> ..."

That is from a wishlist bug report describing a new feature that was never 
implemented. The installer currently does not have NFS support.

Any reason why you cannot use a HTTP or FTP server for preseeding?

Cheers,
FJP