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Re: Debian-installer choose-mirror




On Mar 22, 2006, at 3:08 PM, Frans Pop wrote:

On Wednesday 22 March 2006 20:48, Rick Thomas wrote:
On Mar 22, 2006, at 10:48 AM, Frans Pop wrote:
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 16:16, Matheus Morais wrote:
The d-i firsts steps of installation proccess are working well but
in choose-mirror part d-i cant find the local cdrom repository to
start copy files for the target.

choose-mirror is not intended to find repositories on CDROM, but only
on
network mirrors.

Would it be difficult to have it offer a "CD-ROM" option as well as the
usual network mirrors?

Why should it?
There are other components in d-i that support installing from CD.

d-i is very modular, which means that to get the installation method you
want, you need to combine the correct components into a coherent whole,
especially the components that are included in the initrd that is used to
boot the installer.

I suspect that the original poster made some mistakes in this, but as he
did not provide any real info on what he's done or trying to do, it is
kind of hard to diagnose where the problem is.

I agree. They almost certainly made a mistake. But this is not the first time on this list that someone has written, confused, having made the same mistake. If it happens often enough, "cockpit error" turns into "bug". In a perfect world, it would either be more difficult to make the mistake in the first place, or easier to recover from it once you've made it.

Just my $0.02 ...

Rick



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