On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 04:22:00PM -0200, Matheus Morais wrote: > The simple-cdd looks very interesting for me and probably it will solve my > currently problems. I have a trouble with it in installation proccess. When > is time to search for installation packages the debian-installer fail. > Looking at syslog I have the follow messsage: > > base-installer: error: exiting error on base-installer/cannot_install > > I think the debian-installer could not find any cdrom or mirror installable. > This is very interesting because all packages are in /cdrom/pool/main.
i haven't seen this before ... are you trying with debian-installer from sarge, or something else? > Another question is, every time that I use 'FLAG=C ./build-simple-cdd' the > system uses ftp.debian.org repository to get the packages again. Why I > cannot use the files already downloaded from my local repository (or I > can?)? if using debpartial-mirror 0.2.11, it won't re-download everything- it should check the existing packages against the mirror and only download files that don't match. i tend to use it in combination with a squid proxy, which can speed things up a bit (though it never caches as much as i wish it would). also, there is a --no-do-mirror commandline option that you can use that if you don't add new packages to the list(s) of packages to include on the CD, or if you have a complete local mirror already. live well, vagrant
