On 12/5/05, Thomas Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 22:54:41 -0800, Satyen Sheth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>>>> said: > > > > Question... mkdebmirror has been runing since morning ~ 8:40am (PST) > > this morning. It is now 10:45pm (PST) - (US/California). So we're now > > into the 14th hour. My link is slow(dsl 1.2 peak bursts). I know > > that I won't need ALL of the pkgs which a particular mirror has. So > > what can be tweaked with 'mkdebmirror' to ONLY download the base pkgs > > necessary for me to install the basics and then update my fai client > > via script, using 'apt'. I"m assuming, that it didn't take you over > > You can use fai-mirror (add -a) to create a mirror that only contains > those packages that are needed for your configuration space including > all dependencies. Using the simple examples you will need only > 250Mbytes of packages. If you are using fai 2.8.4 there's one bug, so > the package grub might be missing.
Ah.. that explains it since I didn't install grub. In fai 2.9 this will be fixed. I > can build the newest fai version for you and put it on the fai > download/developers area if you want to use the newest (betea) > version. > Umm, this would be fine, I suppose if I was confident with _my_ ability to smootly config/install fai and get systems up an running. Meh.. But no since in adding more complexity :) using beta code. With 2.4.8, If all is required is to install the Grub pkg to make 'fai-mirror' then I can try that. For the _original_ "bongled" mirror install, I'm going to copy the "pool" directory which comes on Sarge ISO (disk1/disk2) and see if that gets me further. In my _originial_ post, I was failing with an error from debootstrap( due to badly build local mirror ). So copying the contents of 'pool' from the ISO's _should_ get me further. This way I won't run 'mkedebmirror' to get ALL the deb pkgs. The ISO's (disk1/2), after visual inspection have a subset of deb pkgs than a mirror(https.us.debian.org) - I suppose this is expected. Thanks for all replys thus far.. -Seth
