On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 06:19:15AM -0500, RR wrote: > Thanks all for your comments and advice. After having done a bunch of > research and everywhere it says that debian was NOT built to be booted off > of an NFS server and it's supposed to use HTTP. After fighting it a little > bit, I decied to quickly install a light-weight HTTP server (nginx). Now, I > figured everything will go smooth, but here we are: > For some reason, when I go through the install and during the screen of > picking a mirror, I choose "configure Manually" and enter the name:port of > the HTTP as well the location. I also see the installation process pick up > the Release file from the HTTP server successfully: > > *10.1.3.11 - - [03/Feb/2011:11:10:53 +0000] "GET /debian/dists/lenny/Release > HTTP/1.1" 200 912 "-" "Wget" "-"* > > But for some reason, it still comes back saying that it's a "Bad Archive > Mirror" and that it may not have a"Valid Release" file. > > Does anyone know how to fix this or know what's wrong? >
This may not help. I made on on-disk version for debs I build or scarf. There are examples for creating package files and of a release file. http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto Of course apt-cacher-ng will do the same. P.S. Protocol here is to trim the quote and respond below. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- 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/20110204215811.GA27294@Europa.office
