Problems netbooting with 4.0r3 DVDs

2008-05-28 Thread Brent Baccala 

Hi -

I had some trouble installing the latest stable Debian 4.0r3 on an
Intel Pentium platform, though it was a non-standard install.

I downloaded the 3 ISO DVD images, put them on a local web server, and
loopback mounted them to where I could get at them from an http: URL.
I then downloaded netboot.tar.gz from the Debian website and unpacked
it into my server's /tftpboot.  I was able to netboot fine, but when I
tried to point the netboot installer at the loopback mounted ISO
images, it just wouldn't take them.  It was looking for a Release.gpg
file that didn't exist, but even after I copied the one from the
website, it still wouldn't take it.

I prefer to install this way for two reasons:

  1. I've had to install on a machine without a working CD/DVD drive, and
  2. I don't have to burn images out to disks this way

But it doesn't seem to be supported.  Maybe it should be?  The basic
idea is to loopback mount the ISO images on a local webserver and
point everything (apt and friends) at them.



-bwb

Brent Baccala
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Re: Problems netbooting with 4.0r3 DVDs

2008-05-28 Thread Frans Pop 
On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Brent Baccala wrote:
 It was looking for a Release.gpg file that didn't exist, but even after I
 copied the one from the website, it still wouldn't take it.

Of course that won't work. The signature file won't match the contents of 
the DVD!

Try booting the installer with 'debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated=true' 
as documented in [1]. This skips the authentication check for which the
.gpg file is used.

 But it doesn't seem to be supported.  Maybe it should be?  The basic
 idea is to loopback mount the ISO images on a local webserver and
 point everything (apt and friends) at them.

You still won't be able to use more that a single DVD during the 
installation though. You cannot magically merge them.

Cheers,
FJP

[1] http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/ch05s02.html.en#installer-args


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