Hi James and Andrew, Thanks for your two's follow-up. Looks like it's probably a good idea to file a bug report upstream to Ubuntu to Debian's Installation Team? Personally, I think what Ubuntu has done qualifies as a "bug".
> I played around with the 12.10 images today. I've been able to > get past the error that you were hitting by using the netboot > kernel and ramdisk. The desktop DVD also requires that you pull > down the debian-intaller directory as well. > > The installation still fails as it goes to install the system. > It ends up looking for a "live image" and since it's a netboot > it can't find any. This only happens when netbooting and using > a mirror that is simply a rsync of > the DVD. Yes. I got that one too! > If you point the installation to a full mirror such as > http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu the installation goes through > without issue. It looks like Ubuntu has changed the way that they > are installing the system no matter whether you are using a server > or desktop DVD. > > I'm stumped on whether or not there is any way to continue using > the Ubuntu CDs for starting mirrors with cobbler. > >> That's interesting, it would be nice if they would be considerate >>and push a DVD image instead that would work as expected. > > Yeah I totally agree. It did find a set of DVDs but they only > contain the sources for the release which won't help us. > > Regards, > Andrew Gentlemen, please give me a few days. I still have a couple of ideas to try out before we give up on Ubuntu 12.10 and later completely. I have a couple of other ideas to try out. Will report back to the list. Regards and have a great weekend, -- Zack _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://lists.fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
