Re: network installation using local mirror for security updates
Malte Forkel wrote:
Bob schrieb:
8< snip etch installer slow as it grabs updates from nonlocal mirror
Just don't let it update at install time but wait until after first
boot when you can hand tune /etc/apt/sources.list alternatively you
could edit the hosts file of your firewall so it returns the IP
address of your local mirror for security.debian.org remember to make
sure your mirror pulls it's files down from a different source.
Does the installer actually ask me during installation whether to
update? I admit, I don't remember. Or is this an option I can set
somewhere before installation?
Don't know about the graphical installer, I always go "expert" as that's
what I'm used to and it doesn't install updates. I like the idea of
editing the hosts file, if you can't do it on your firewall you can use
Ctrl + Alt + F4 (F something anyway) to get to a command prompt, then
use nano to edit /ets/hosts and insert a line like
192.168.0.10 security.debian.org
I think changes in /etc/hosts take effect immediately but perhaps you
could confirm this.
You could always at that point just edit the /etc/apt/sources.list but
the limited shell you get with the installer doesn't have apt-get so you
cant run update and I don't know how else to get it to register the changes.
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