On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 09:10:13PM +0100, Philipp Kern wrote:
sure, but first you talk about having 50 machines and a local mirror and then
about the typical user. Meh.
We expect users to setup their own machines. The IT department really
only deals with Windows.
Having a local copy of a
On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 09:51:00AM +, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
Using GeoMirror [1] (aka cdn.debian.net) as default mirror in the default
installation can save decisions and interaction to who is installing and be a
more automated process.
* Pros:
- 'good' default as it should select a
On 2011-03-07, Lennart Sorensen lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
As someone with a local copy of debian since we have about 50 debian
machiens running, having to do expert install to manually enter the
mirror would be a huge pain in the ass.
So I think that would be a lousy default unless
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 05:15:02PM +, Philipp Kern wrote:
Why not using netinstall with a tiny bit of preseeding? Something like
this added to the boot parameters is usually enough:
mirror/country=manual mirror/http/hostname=ftp.de.debian.org
mirror/http/directory=/debian/
(You
Lennart,
am Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 12:18:56PM -0500 hast du folgendes geschrieben:
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 05:15:02PM +, Philipp Kern wrote:
Why not using netinstall with a tiny bit of preseeding? Something like
this added to the boot parameters is usually enough:
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 10:30, Holger Levsen hol...@layer-acht.org wrote:
Hi,
On Samstag, 5. März 2011, Christian PERRIER wrote:
I think it should be used, but IMO it should become cdn.debian._org_
first, at least for stable. For sid and testing it's ok without
debian.org but a stable
Miguel Figueiredo at Sat, 5 Mar 2011 09:51:00 + wrote:
MF Hi all,
MF Using GeoMirror [1] (aka cdn.debian.net) as default mirror in the default
MF installation can save decisions and interaction to who is installing and
be a
MF more automated process.
MF * Pros:
MF - 'good'
Hi all,
Using GeoMirror [1] (aka cdn.debian.net) as default mirror in the default
installation can save decisions and interaction to who is installing and be a
more automated process.
* Pros:
- 'good' default as it should select a nearby working mirror
- efficient use of Debian mirrors
- less
Hi,
On Samstag, 5. März 2011, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
* Cons:
- Less customization
preseeding and expert mode is still possible...
- 'good' default could not be the best default
ftp.us.debian.org is a worse default for most people.
What to you think about it's use in the installer?
I
Quoting Holger Levsen (hol...@layer-acht.org):
On Samstag, 5. März 2011, Miguel Figueiredo wrote:
* Cons:
- Less customization
preseeding and expert mode is still possible...
- 'good' default could not be the best default
ftp.us.debian.org is a worse default for most people.
Hi,
On Samstag, 5. März 2011, Christian PERRIER wrote:
I think it should be used, but IMO it should become cdn.debian._org_
first, at least for stable. For sid and testing it's ok without
debian.org but a stable install should fetch things from .org.
That doesn't seem to be that easy, as
Holger Levsen wrote:
- 'good' default could not be the best default
ftp.us.debian.org is a worse default for most people.
That's irrelevant; d-i does not default to ftp.us.debian.org, and it
*does* present cdn.debian.net near the top of the list of choices (but
never as the first choice).
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