I have been testing 2.4.0 from epel-testing. So far, I have been successful in PXE
booting Ubuntu-12.04.1-server, 64bit. Since I am off today, so this afternoon I decided to
try to PXE boot Ubuntu 12.10 desktop.
Setting up cobbler as usual, watching the initrd.gz and linux file retrieved successfully.
Now, upon Download installer component, I got a window that displays:
"The installer failed to download a file from the mirror. This may be a problem with
your network, or with the mirror. You can choose to retry the download, select a
different mirror, or cancel and choose another installation method.
Downloading a file failed:
Retry
Change mirror
Cancel
Alt-F4 into the logging vt, I saw (manually transcribed):
[...]
Nov 15 23:13:34 choose-mirror[3541]: INFO: suite/codename set to: quantal/quantal
Nov 15 23:13:34 choose-morror[3541]: DEBUG: command wget -q
http://192.168.1.3:80/cblr/ks_mirror/ubuntu-12.10-desktop-x86_64/dists/qu...
-O - | grep ^Architecture
Nov 15 23:13:34 anna-install: Queueing udeb quantal-support for later installation
Nov 15 23:13:34 main-menu[384]: DEBUG: resolver (libc-udeb): package doesn't exist
(ignored)
Nov 15 23:13:34 main-menu[384]: DEBUG: resolver (libnewt0.52): package doesn't exist
(ignored)
Nov 15 23:13:34 main-menu[384]: INFO: Menu item 'download-installer' seelected
Nov 15 23:13:34 main-menu[384]: gpgv: Signature made Wed Oct 17 18:36:03 2012 UTC using
DSA Kkey ID FBB75451
Nov 15 23:13:34 net-retriever: gpgv:
Nov 15 23:13:34 net-retriever: Good signature from "Ubuntu CD Image Automatic Signing
key <cdimage(a)ubuntu.com>"
Nov 15 23:13:34 net-retriever:
Nov 15 23:13:34 anna[3566]: cat: can't open
'/tmp/net-retriever-3570-deduplicate/*': no such files or directory
I double checked the cobbler server's Apache access_log and error_log, no clues so
far. Would appreciate a hint or two as to how to go from here.
Regards,
-- Zack