Re: how to setup a small local Debian mirror to install a VM without an internet access
On 10/5/2019 8:51 AM, David wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 02:23, Fred Boiteux <fbpros@free.fr> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to install automatically (using preseed) a Debian Buster 10.1
>> system on a VM hosted on a system without internet access, using a netboot.
>
>> Thanks to Steve McIntyre explanations (see #940801), I know how to
>> update the netboot's initrd to include the virtio_blk driver, and the
>> debian installer is now well detecting the VM's disk, and after
>> partitionning it, it tries to download some Debian packages to install a
>> minimal system on this new disk. For this purpose, i've setup a local
>> Debian mirror copying the files on DVD-1 debian installer, but the
>> debian-installer refuse to use it, because it's not GPG-signed, and so
>> fails to install any package :
>
> Hi Fred,
>
> I am unsure from your message exactly how much network access you
> may or may not have for your required VM install operations, so the
> below suggestion might be useless for you, but I will send it anyway
> on the chance it helps you.
>
Approxy/apt-cacher-ng could be installed as an vm and the preseed file
would reference that mirror.
> On my main PC (just a desktop with some TB HDD) on my LAN I run
> an 'approx" server[1]. In every /etc/apt/sources.list (on that machine and
> every other machine) there are only references to that server (nothing
> outside the LAN, no deb.debian.org or security.debian.org), so every
> Debian package that I install on any machine is then cached by the
> approx server and after that can be served to any other machine.
>
> The approx server config file is the only place where deb.debian.org
> and security.debian.org is written. It can work with other repos, for example
> I configured mine to also cache raspberrypi.org. It does not download
> the entire repo, it just caches what is used and downloads the misses.
>
apt-cacher-ng includes the ability to add from an iso file.
If you need to use your own pkgs, the following URL might help you:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/NetbootInstall
That is, include your gpg key in initrd.gz.
--
John Doe
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