Re: setup a private mirror WITHOUT Internet connection
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:49:29 +0200, Hugo wrote in message
<9ff2c18a0710170949p62f8a5aawc7c846f71a1fef1f@mail.gmail.com>:
> Hi.
> I don´t think that I should ask this here, but maybe someone can help
> me.
>
> I want to install Debian Etch on my job`s network
..erm, a mirror box? Maybe 3? One online at work, one offline
at home, and one transport mirror on your laptop?
Or, just a portable mirror disk mounted off /var/www/debian ?
> , and I get the
> installer on DVD for that. Some computers have DVD reader, good. But
> some don´t. For that computers, I decided to perform a network
> installation. I don´t have Internet, so I decided to setup a local
> FTP server.
>
> So I setup a FTP server on my Debian box, and copied all files on the
> DVD into its ftp root directory. Then I use "netinst" cd to perform
> installation.
..why ftp??? Just set up the anonftpsync script, it uses rsync.
.._and_, you want an http boot server, chk out:
http://debian-administration.org/articles/478
and http://etherboot.org/wiki/httpboot
and http://etherboot.org/wiki/pxechaining
and http://etherboot.org/wiki/about
and http://etherboot.org/wiki/ . Etc.
..and maybe your own mirror of http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ ?
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