I have also made the following observations:
With Red Hat alike systems, once an official mirror is mirrored locally, it can be used
for PXE booting, for package installation, or both. The iso images provides more or less
the same content as the official mirrors. So, an iso image is good for everything.But with
Ubuntu, once an official repository is mirrored locally using e.g. debmirror, without
fetching and unpacking the netboot tar ball, the result can be only used for installing
packages. Thus, the degree of automation is at least two steps behind what cobbler does
for Red Hat systems. IMHO this "gap" should be filled.Iso images for Ubuntu
releases come many variants, some with alternate install, some don't. Thus, some can
be used as basis for PXE network install, some can't. The entire situation is a big
mess IMHO.
BTW, of the Debian/Ubuntu section of this file:
https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/blob/master/config/import_rsync_whitelist, the
sub-section about netboot is no longer applicable since Canonical has decided to provide
the netboot images separately, outside of its offical repository hierarchy.
Regards,
-- Zack
Good idea.
I use the
http://www.gtkdb.de/index_7_959.html
mirror ubuntu 12.04 and other deb mirror.
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