Hi Floris, Floris Bos <bos@je-eigen-domein.nl> (2019-06-03): > 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. This /might/ be a bug on the FTP side, or a deliberate decision on their side. I suggest getting in touch with them: https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/FTPMaster > Filled a bug report a month ago: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928517. > But did not receive any response. The mirrors team deals with the mirror network, while the issue you're seeing is likely on the contents generation side. > 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? I think you might find tweaking apt-setup/services-select interesting. Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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