I think installer wants files from remote mirror that are already in CD-drive. I booted from pre-RC2 floppies, boot, root, and cd-drivers. Then installer found SCSI CD-drive and pre-RC2 netboot cd image there. Then I told it to use my own partial mirror, created with command debmirror /opt/mirror/debian --nosource --passive \ --host=ftp.fi.debian.org --dist=sarge --arch=i386 \ --section=main,contrib,non-free --progress and served with HTTP server. But installer fails to use it, claiming file not found. From /var/log/apache2/access.log I find 172.22.28.244 - - [03/Oct/2004:13:10:00 +0300] "GET /debian//dists/sarge/Release HTTP/1.1" 200 22828 "-" "Wget" 172.22.28.244 - - [03/Oct/2004:13:10:03 +0300] "GET /debian//dists/testing/Release HTTP/1.1" 200 22828 "-" "Wget" 172.22.28.244 - - [03/Oct/2004:13:10:03 +0300] "GET /debian//dists/testing/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages.gz HTTP/1.1" 404 422 "-" "Wget" 172.22.28.244 - - [03/Oct/2004:13:10:03 +0300] "GET /debian//dists/testing/main/debian-installer/binary-i386/Packages HTTP/1.1" 404 419 "-" "Wget" And /var/log/apache2/error.log states [Sun Oct 03 13:10:03 2004] [error] [client 172.22.28.244] File does not exist: /var/www/debian/dists/testing/main/debian-installer [Sun Oct 03 13:10:03 2004] [error] [client 172.22.28.244] File does not exist: /var/www/debian/dists/testing/main/debian-installer Surely the debian-installer is in the netboot CD? I need to use an official Debian mirror to get past this point, which is kinda bad since I do have my own partial mirror. After the Debian base system is installed, I can configure apt to use my partial mirror and install the rest of Debian from there. -- Tapio Lehtonen Tapio.Lehtonen@IKI.FI GPG public key from http://www.iki.fi/Tapio.Lehtonen
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