[...]
>> 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/curre...
>
> 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
[...]
./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
[...]
./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
[...]
./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