<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">I have also made the following observations:</div><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><br></div><ul><li style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">With Red Hat alike systems, once an official mirror is mirrored locally, it can be used for PXE booting, for package installation, or both. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">The iso images provides more or less the same content as the official mirrors. So, an iso image is good for everything.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">But with Ubuntu, once an official repository is mirrored locally using e.g. debmirror, without fetching and unpacking the netboot tar ball, the result can be only used for installing packages. Thus, the degree of
automation is at least two steps behind what cobbler does for Red Hat systems. IMHO this "gap" should be filled.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; ">Iso images for Ubuntu releases come many variants, some with alternate install, some don't. Thus, some can be used as basis for PXE network install, some can't. The entire situation is a big mess IMHO. </span></li></ul><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; "><div><br></div><div>BTW, of the Debian/Ubuntu section of this file: https://github.com/cobbler/cobbler/blob/master/config/import_rsync_whitelist, the sub-section about netboot is no longer applicable since Canonical has decided to provide the netboot images separately, outside of its offical repository hierarchy.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>-- Zack<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br><div
id="yiv1087954462">Good idea.<br><br>I use the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.gtkdb.de/index_7_959.html">http://www.gtkdb.de/index_7_959.html</a><br><br>mirror ubuntu 12.04 and other deb mirror.<br><br>[...]</div></blockquote></div></div></div></td></tr></table>