On Feb 6, 2006, at 6:28 AM, Tobias Doerkes wrote:
Hi list,
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i tried installing debian 3.1 on s390 in a z/VM guest (z/VM 5.1 on IBM
z990). so i downloaded the 13 cd images, copied them all in one
directory
and mount this directory for ftp server use. After starting the
debian exec
to load the first system in the vmguest, i performed network setup,
started
a ssh client and did a logon to the debian-installer. I manually
entered our
inhouse ftp-site as debian-mirror. But after selecting "Download
installer
components" in the main menu, i receive the following error message:
If you're going to do it like that, you need to mount all 13 CD
images with the loop option to mount. What you're serving right now
is 13 really big ISO files. However, once they're mounted you could
edit /etc/apt/sources.list to point to each of the (mounted) CD
filesystems.
That's what the SNA 3.0 installer did. 3.1, if I ever finish it,
just uses a local pool, because it's much less hassle. That's what I
recommend: debmirror to mirror the pool, and just serve that with,
say, Apache, and install from there. m23 claims to have a script
that does conversion from CD to installation pool, too, if you don't
want to resync from scratch.
Adam
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