Re: approx for new "netinst" installation

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@broadcaster.org>]

* Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> [110126 03:45]:
> On Tuesday 25 January 2011 16:17:56 Russell L. Harris wrote:
> > I am trying to discover how -- if it is possible -- to use "approx" in
> > order to minimize download time and bandwidth during a new "netinst"
> > installation.
...
> During the 'net-install' when the choose mirror screen appears you need to scroll 
> to the top of the list, choose manual entry or some such, point it at a local 
> url, proxy etc.
> 
> This choice is apparent in all install modes, default to expert.

I tried that, entering "192.168.0.200" (the LAN address of my approx
server) as the "Debian archive mirror hostname" and
"/var/cache/approx/debian" as the "Debian archive mirror directory".

Inspecting the installation log with F4, I saw the following error
message:

   choose-mirror[30711]: DEBUG: command: wget -q
   http://192.168.0.200/var/cache/approx/debian/dists/squeeze/Release
   -0 - | grep -E `^(Suite|Codename:`

   choose-mirror[30711]: WARNING **: mirror does not support the
   specified release (squeeze)

However, the approx server has been used less than a week ago to
install files to a new Squeeze system (which was installed using
the netinst Release Candidate 1 CD).

RLH