Re: PXE install, without internet?
On 1/11/2014 4:40 AM, Артур Истомин wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:21:30PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>> I managed to convince my staff to switch to debian from windoze, and they
>> agreed. So I managed to install a PXE server and successfully booted debian
>> installer simultaneously on 20 machines using dhcp server.
>>
>> But they required an active internet connection to fetch packages over a
>> mirror, and the bandwidth was very low, so at then end of the day, only one
>> PC was able to set up.
>>
>> So is there a way to boot an entire 4gb dvd-iso from a server, so that I
>> can install it on PC connected on a network??
>
> You can create local mirror of repos.
>
> http://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror
Yes, with 20 machines to install via PXE boot, setting up a local mirror
is the best method by far.
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Stan
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