On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 10:15:54PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > But, I can't figure out what I should tell the netinstall software when it > asks me to specify a mirror. Some particulars of my system:
> The url of the host running apt-proxy is cmn.lan.gnu . > A sample line in a using host sources.list is > deb http://cmn.lan.gnu:9999/main woody main contrib non-free > What do I type on a newly attached machine to get it to make use > of the apt-cache for a net install of sarge? Or is this proto-feature > not implemented? Quoting from apt-proxy's README: --------- Q: What else is apt-proxy known to work with? How do I configure it? [...] A2: debootstrap, which uses wget. This means you can easily install new machine using the packages out of your apt-proxy cache. In boot floppies, specify http://APTPROXY:9999/main as your debian mirror (replacing APTPROXY with the name or IP address of the machine where apt-proxy is running). --------- In your case, tell it your debian mirror is at: http://cmn.lan.gnu:9999/main Chris
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