In <[🔎] 20110129230759.GD2390@rlharris.org>, Russell L. Harris wrote: >* Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net> [110126 03:45]: >> On Tuesday 25 January 2011 16:17:56 Russell L. Harris wrote: >> > I am trying to discover how -- if it is >> > possible -- to use "approx" in >> > order to minimize download time and >> > bandwidth during a new "netinst" >> > installation. >> During the 'net-install' when the choose >> mirror screen appears you need to >> scroll to the top of the list, choose manual >> entry or some such, point it >> at a local url, proxy etc. > >I tried that, entering "192.168.0.200" (the LAN address of my approx >server) as the "Debian archive mirror hostname" That's right. >and >"/var/cache/approx/debian" as the "Debian archive mirror directory". That's wrong. You probably just want /debian or whatever the name of the remote repository mapping you've set up on that approx server. >Inspecting the installation log with F4, I saw the following error >message: > > choose-mirror[30711]: DEBUG: command: wget -q > http://192.168.0.200/var/cache/approx/debian/dists/squeeze/Release > -0 - | grep -E `^(Suite|Codename:` > > choose-mirror[30711]: WARNING **: mirror does not support the > specified release (squeeze) As you can see from this error message, the URL that apt will us is something like http://$DEBIAN_MIRROR_HOST/$DEBIAN_MIRROR_DIR So, if you have a live system that has a line like: deb http://192.168.0.200/debian squeeze main in its sources.list, then for a new install you'll answer the first question with: 192.168.0.200 and the second question with: debian -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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