5.4 PXE network install and CDs

Paul Civati paul at xciv.org
Sun Jun 5 19:32:39 GMT 2005


In article <34387.1117974507 at xciv.org>,
	paul at xciv.org (Paul Civati) writes:

> I *am* stuck on one minor point, I've coped CD1 and CD2 on to my
> ftp server but sysinstall keeps prompting to change disks during
> the package install.  I've created a cdrom.inf (the handbook says
> this is how sysinstall knows what CD is loaded) like the ftp mirrors,
> but I'm still prompted to change CDs.  What am I missing?

I was missing the obvious, that 'packages/INDEX' specifies what
disk each package is on, hence some modification of the INDEX is
required..

# cd packages
# mv INDEX INDEX.orig
# sed -e 's/|1/|0/' -e 's/|2/|0/' INDEX.orig > INDEX

-Paul-


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