Re: debmirror can't download some boot system's files
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:25:50AM +0300, Alexander Golovin wrote:
> I had downloaded my local Debian Etch mirror with debmirror, then I was
>trying to create my dvd's. Now all is ok, except one: for create first
>bootable dvd "debian-40r3-i386-DVD-1.iso" I need some files which hadn't
>downloaded with debmirror:
>
>debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/20070308etch2/images/floppy/boot.img
>debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/20070308etch2/images/cdrom/initrd.gz
>debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/20070308etch2/images/cdrom/gtk/initrd.gz
>debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/20070308etch2/images/floppy/cd-drivers.img
>debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/20070308etch2/images/cdrom/gtk/vmlinuz
>debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/20070308etch2/images/floppy/root.img
>
> I had downloaded all this files with wget and copied to my local
>mirror, before that debian-40r3-i386-DVD-1.iso was created successfully.
>
> I had used debmirror with that options:
>debmirror debian --nosource --host=ftp.fi.debian.org --method=http --progress --dist=etch --section=main,contrib,non-free,main/debian-installer --arch=i386 --ignore-release-gpg
>
> What's wrong with that, had I missed some debmirror options?
Nope. Unfortunately, debmirror doesn't know how to download the
installer kernel and images as they're not mentioned in any Packages
or Sources files. Adding a final rsync or wget will allow you to
complete a mirror. Most full mirrors use rsync in my experience.
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