[cobbler] cobbler 2.4.0 and problems booting Ubuntu 12.10 desktop 64bit

James Cammarata jimi at sngx.net
Sun Nov 18 23:07:43 UTC 2012


> You might want to check the dists folder and make sure that you have a
> "universe" folder in there so that it is able to get package listings.
>
> I played with this a bit this weekend as well. I ended up getting a minimal
> mirror of the Ubuntu packages needed setup but it requires a bit of work to
> get going.
>
> First I downloaded the quantal dists folders from a mirror. Then, I had to
> create a package list of the squashfs image on the installation disk as well
> as a list of packages that failed to install during a test installation. It
> isn't ideal but it is a possibility for getting 12.10 up with a subset of
> the repository (thought I've only tested the server install so I can't
> really help you with the desktops issues here). If anyone is interested I
> can send out instructions on what I did.

I'm grabbing the 12.10 desktop ISO now, which I'll test with the master branch.


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