sources.list with local mirror?

2000-06-07 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, Say I mirror /debian/dists/potato/main/*i386 to /mnt/debian on a local machine that has both ftp and nfs installed. Once complete, I want to install a new machine from the local mirror. What would I put in my sources.list file if I wanted to do the install via nfs? ftp? Burn it to CD

Re: sources.list with local mirror?

2000-06-07 Thread Allan Andersen
Robert L. Harris wrote: Ok, Say I mirror /debian/dists/potato/main/*i386 to /mnt/debian on a local machine that has both ftp and nfs installed. Once complete, I want to install a new machine from the local mirror. What would I put in my sources.list file if I wanted to do the install

Re: sources.list with local mirror?

2000-06-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Tha is what I would do, burn it, that way you have all in safe mode. Robert L. Harris wrote: Ok, Say I mirror /debian/dists/potato/main/*i386 to /mnt/debian on a local machine that has both ftp and nfs installed. Once complete, I want to install a new machine from the local mirror. What

Re: sources.list with local mirror?

2000-06-07 Thread Robert L. Harris
Ok, If I download binary-i386 to cd, and burn it so that /cdrom contains the contents of binary-i386, what goes in the sources.list? Do I need to maintain the /debian/dists. tree? Part of the problem is one of my machines has a floppy, but no CD, thus the multiple questions. Robert

Re: sources.list with local mirror?

2000-06-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
something like deb file:/cdrom/ debian/main/binary-i386/ I think that you need to keep the tree from debian down. Please someone correct of wrong. Thanks Robert L. Harris wrote: Ok, If I download binary-i386 to cd, and burn it so that /cdrom contains the contents of binary-i386, what goes