Suggestion for choose-mirror
Could choose-mirror be changed so that if certain environment variables
are set then it uses values from those rather than prompt for them?
II suggest that the proxy information be specified thus:
http_proxy=http://example.com:3128/
The reason I suggest http_proxy over any others is that it's already
used for that purpose by other commonly-used programs such as lynx, wget.
Of course, for an ftp install then ftp_proxy would be appropriate.
I don't care so much what others are, but maybe
source=
http://www.example.com/debian/
ftp://ftp.example.com/pub/debian
nfs://nfs.example.com/var/local/mirror/debian
usb://
cd://
and whatever else is needed.
While these are more than almost anyone will type in at tbe boot prompt
(more than one or twice, at least), it's not hard to supply the info
via pxelinux, syslinux, grub etc configurations.
This would go some way to automating the install prcedure, especially if
the idea's adapted to other packages.
Any thoughts?
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John
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