[frwding to the liist, sent by mistake only to Scott] Thanks for everything. I have observed that a few packages are being downloaded from the internet. They maybe the security packages and updates released after package the iso. ( I have imported the packages from the iso )
Now taking all this to a new level, is there a way to mirror official debian ftp repositories like debian main, debian security, debian updates etc on the apt-cacher-ng database, and maybe update those repositories once twenty days? > Leave the slash off e.g.:- > d-i mirror/http/proxy http://172.16.4.104:3142 > >> >> ### >> >> It should work right? > > Now it will :) I will test the preseed and let you know whether its working or not! I am taking some days off from the college for a well deserved holiday. > TFTP doesn't handle more than about 100 simultaneous installations - the > solution there is to use GPXE (which also allows greater flexibility > with the location of the server) - and use http instead of tftp. For > more than 1000 simultaneous installs I'd suggest GPXE with http via slamd. > There are only 20 PCs in the lab that I am trying to manage. So that shouldn't be a problem right? When I boot the PCs and escape to boot menu, I select network from list of devices to boot from and after the PC stucks on finding the PXE server. When I try to restart the tfpt-hpa service from the service, the service never starts sometimes. I am not able to find out the real pattern as to when the tftp server stops working. Sometimes just restarting the isc-dhcp-server service on the server will solver the issue, and sometimes restarting the dhcp service wont help. >> >> Thanks for all your support! I finally got the apt-cacher-ng part working. >> > > I love apt-cacher-ng (we're just good friends, 'really'). Apt-cacher and > squid are also good for the same thing - but apt-cacher-ng has much > lower resource requirements. Glad to hear it's all working for you. When > it comes to administering all those boxes you might also find Steve > Kemps debian-admin site interesting:- > http://debian-administration.org/ > Thanks for the website, maybe one day I will be telnet-ing or ssh-ing to the same PXE server that I have setup and will be installing so many packages together on so many machines at the same time right from my bed. :) -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- Regards, Anubhav Yadav Imperial College of Engineering and Research, Pune. -- 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/ca+jf9ag2toplqtmyzde+hjgtg9sgr4viujjaj86auzx9_pv...@mail.gmail.com
