I have also made the following observations:
With Red Hat alike systems, once an official mirror is mirrored locally, it can
be used for PXE booting, for package installation, or both. The iso images
provides more or less the same content as the official mirrors. So, an iso
image is good for everything.But with Ubuntu, once an official repository is
mirrored locally using e.g. debmirror, without fetching and unpacking the
netboot tar ball, the result can be only used for installing packages. Thus,
the degree of automation is at least two steps behind what cobbler does for Red
Hat systems. IMHO this "gap" should be filled.Iso images for Ubuntu releases
come many variants, some with alternate install, some don't. Thus, some can be
used as basis for PXE network install, some can't. The entire situation is a
big mess IMHO.
BTW, of the Debian/Ubuntu section of this file:
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/blob/master/config/import_rsync_whitelist,
the sub-section about netboot is no longer applicable since Canonical has
decided to provide the netboot images separately, outside of its offical
repository hierarchy.
Regards,
-- Zack
Good idea.
I use the http://www.gtkdb.de/index_7_959.html
mirror ubuntu 12.04 and other deb mirror.
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