Hi, Mike:
On Friday 05 June 2009 02:40:09 mike wrote:
Has anyone installed lenny, with a netinst cd, going to a server running
apt-proxy to get packages?
Yes, but I think to remember that you can't completly do it "as is" since even
on the expert mode you are not allowed to choose repos for security updates
(nor you can choose to install without security updates). The net result is
that security updates always go to the Internet.
But you could pass at boot time a boot param pointing to a D-I template which
in turn overwrites all repos to point to your apt-proxy. I do it and go a
step beyond that: I use a TFTP/DHCP/PXE server which feeds the netinst images
and the URL to the template so I can automate most of the install process.
You'll find step-by-step tutorial to achieve that on the Internet.
or is it better to put in a proxy server and
do the initial install that way?
A "generalistic" web proxy server properly configured should do the trick
since it would happily cache your security updated packages too. The netinst
offers you to configure going through a proxy at least when on expert mode.