Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-17 Thread RR
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Martin Habets < errandir_n...@mph.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > The way my boot server is setup is, that it has tftp, /etc/ethers and > > /etc/hosts files all setup. > > You'll also need either bootparamd or dhcpd set up. > I don't believe that's required by Debian. B

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-17 Thread Martin Habets
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 01:49:47PM -0500, RR wrote: > Hello, > > this may be a very obvious one of those things that I should just "Google" > but given my last experience, and unsuccessful Googling, I figured maybe I > should ask the community as to what the CORRECT way to install Debian on a > S

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-07 Thread RR
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include > Yes, it's a tiny HTTP proxy with some sugar, getting extra knowledge > from package databases or predefined configuration and making more > optimal decissions than ordinary HTTP proxies. > > If you decide to use it, you could reuse

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-05 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * RR [Fri, Feb 04 2011, 10:19:06PM]: > helps build one a local mirror. It's been going on for almost 20 hrs and > it's downloaded 28GB so far after I used a LOT of EXCLUDEs but oh well. Was > a Bad move in a way since Squeeze is going to be out soon and then I'll have > to build a mirror

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-05 Thread Freeman
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 10:19:06PM -0500, RR wrote: > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Freeman wrote: > > > 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/rep

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-04 Thread RR
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Freeman wrote: > 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

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-04 Thread Freeman
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 qu

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-03 Thread RR
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 fig

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-02 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 05:12:05PM -0500, Rob Owens wrote: > On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 01:39:59PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > In , RR wrote: > > >this may be a very obvious one of those things that I should just "Google" > > >but given my last experience, and unsuccessful Googling, I fi

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-02 Thread Rob Owens
On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 01:39:59PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In , RR wrote: > >this may be a very obvious one of those things that I should just "Google" > >but given my last experience, and unsuccessful Googling, I figured maybe I > >should ask the community as to what the CORRECT wa

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-02 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 13:49 -0500, RR wrote: > Hello, > > this may be a very obvious one of those things that I should just > "Google" but given my last experience, and unsuccessful Googling, I > figured maybe I should ask the community as to what the CORRECT way to > install Debian on a Sun ma

Re: Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-02 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In , RR wrote: >this may be a very obvious one of those things that I should just "Google" >but given my last experience, and unsuccessful Googling, I figured maybe I >should ask the community as to what the CORRECT way to install Debian on a >Sun machine such that it uses the ISO/Distribution on

Installing Debian from NFS

2011-02-02 Thread RR
Hello, this may be a very obvious one of those things that I should just "Google" but given my last experience, and unsuccessful Googling, I figured maybe I should ask the community as to what the CORRECT way to install Debian on a Sun machine such that it uses the ISO/Distribution on my local NF