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Care to explain a bit more? AFAICT the netboot images are exactly where they used to be.
Thanks. I need to correct myself a bit.
Yes. netbook images are available at for example for 12.10-x86_64 at:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/installer-amd64/current/...
or the daily build area.
The hierarchy, however, differs from what you may get from an iso image. IMO Red Hat systems are more consistent in this regard.
Ah, got it.
While we are on the subject of netboot issue, I also spotted something odd. AFAIK, the ubuntu-12.10-desktop-amd64.iso and ubuntu-12.10-server-amd64.iso do not provide working netboot images for PXE network install. Please see my test report in this regard:
http://www.mail-archive.com/cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org/msg08210.html
As a result of my digging around, I found lubuntu-12.10-alternate-amd64.iso (never tried it before). But the iso IMHO has a funny aspect to it. Lets take a look of the above iso's content, loop mounted on /mnt:
[root@cobbler quantal]# pwd /mnt/dists/quantal [root@cobbler quantal]# ls -lR .: total 17 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 17 00:26 main dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 17 00:25 multiverse -r--r--r-- 1 root root 8436 Oct 17 00:26 Release -r--r--r-- 1 root root 198 Oct 17 00:26 Release.gpg dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 17 00:25 restricted dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 17 00:25 universe
./main: total 10 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 17 00:26 binary-amd64 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 17 00:26 binary-i386 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 17 00:25 debian-installer dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 17 00:26 dist-upgrader dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 17 00:25 source
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./main/debian-installer: total 2 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 17 00:26 binary-amd64
./main/debian-installer/binary-amd64: total 30 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 30259 Oct 17 00:26 Packages.gz
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./universe: total 8 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 17 00:26 binary-amd64 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 17 00:26 binary-i386 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 17 00:25 debian-installer dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 17 00:25 source
./universe/binary-amd64: total 48 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 48538 Oct 17 00:26 Packages.gz -r--r--r-- 1 root root 101 Oct 17 00:26 Release
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./universe/debian-installer: total 2 dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 2048 Oct 17 00:26 binary-amd64
./universe/debian-installer/binary-amd64: total 1 -r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 Packages.gz [...]
Note that the Packages.gz in universe/debian-installer/binary-amd64 has no content, but its counterpart in universe/binary-amd64 does.
I have tried to use the iso burned to a CD to do an install. The Lubunbun desktop did get installed, even without an Internet connection (I pulled the wire ;-)
But up to now, if I try to do a PXE network install, the only way that I can get a desktop installed is to add a locally mirrored repository with a d-i apt-setup/local0/repository ... preseed debconf-set-selections command.
I even tried to replace the Packages.gz in universe/debian-installer/binary-amd64 with the result of dpkg-scanpackages, gzipped, but the graphical login is still missing after the install.
Regards,
-- Zack