Debian Jessie net installations broken for last months
Hi,
We having been having problems with preseeded PXE network installations
of Debian Jessie for the past months, while it used to work before, and
other Debian editions do install properly.
First of all our installation script used to be able to download the
network installation files (kernel/initrd) from:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-amd64/current/
But that folder disappeared.
Filled a bug report a month ago:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928517.
But did not receive any response.
Then tried the network installation files in the other folder
"20150422+deb8u" that does still exist:
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-amd64/20150422+deb8u5/images/netboot/debian-installer/amd64/
But that will fail to complete installation on servers do not have full
Internet access.
We set a custom mirror with the "d-i mirror/http/hostname" preseed option.
But it also wants to download repository files from
http://security.debian.org/ nevertheless, which will fail with a warning.
It then complains that the (mirrored)
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie-updates/InRelease file does
not have the right entries.
"Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-amd64/Packages' in Release
file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)"
The InRelease file for stretch and buster does have
main/binary-amd64/Packages entries on the main mirror site.
Any reason they are no longer there for jessie even while that release
is not EOL yet?
Yours sincerely,
Floris Bos
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