Re: How to create partial mirror of debian for testing d-i?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 11:42:04AM +0300, Tapio Lehtonen wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> how do I create a partial mirror of Debian for testing
> debian-installer? I use debmirror to create an install server on my
> local LAN, and it works for installing packages, but debian-installer
> needs in addition
>   dists/sarge/main/debian-installer
>   dists/sarge/main/installer-i386
> which I copied there by hand. Then d-i needed ddetect in pool, at
> which point I gave up, since it looked like this may go on forever
> if I need to copy packages one by one. 
> 
> This is the debmirror command:
> 
> debmirror /opt/Varasto1/mirror/debian --nosource --passive \
>   --host=ftp.fi.debian.org --dist=sarge --arch=i386 \
>   --section=main,contrib,non-free --progress 

You want to add the main/debian-installer section. Dunno about
installer-i386 etc.

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]