* Greg Madden <gomadtr...@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. > > This choice is apparent in all install modes, default to expert.
I tried that, entering "192.168.0.200" (the LAN address of my approx server) as the "Debian archive mirror hostname" and "/var/cache/approx/debian" as the "Debian archive mirror directory". 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) However, the approx server has been used less than a week ago to install files to a new Squeeze system (which was installed using the netinst Release Candidate 1 CD). RLH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110129230759.gd2...@rlharris.org
