Jesper Krogh wrote on Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 01:32:19PM +0200 : > I was just trying to install a freshly mirrored cooker archive. > > The text installations still fails group and package selection steps > during install.
I'd say it must be an incomplete mirror or permissions on your ftp
server. I did about 12 net installs yesterday, and I did them all FTP
since a few were complaining about failures with FTP net installs. I
had absolutely zero problems.
I even setup a PXE server on my machine. Now all the clients are
configured to boot PXE first (a bootp request). The default PXE
configuration times out after 15 seconds and just boots from the local
hard drive. But if the user enters "cooker", it will tftp the
network.img over to the client and start executing it. Instant network
install.
Props to Erwan Velu for showing me that. It's sweeter than you can
imagine. And a network install is FAST.
Of course, there are a few requirements. You must install and configure
an anonymous ftp server or setup an nfs export or setup an http server.
You must also configure a non-master dhcp server to handle the bootp
requests. If you don't have a dhcp server on your network, there's no
issues, but we do have a master dhcp server, and I spent a little time
testing that the non-master didn't interfere with it. It works fine.
The pxe-server package installs a dhcpd.conf.pxe file that has
everything you need, only have to customize the paths and network
ranges.
Two notes: the tftp server is chrooted to /var/lib/tftpboot so symlinks
to the real files don't work. You must copy the network.img to
/var/lib/tftpboot/PXEClient/whatever
HTH
Blue skies... Todd
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