[ILUG] Ubuntu netboot question

[Francis Daly]

On 28/01/2009, Braun Brelin <bbrelin at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there,

some quick answers on the "wget" questions, but only hints on the rest...

> The network installation manages to successfully download the preseed.cfg
> file via http from my server, however, it can't seem to
> access the ubuntu .iso image.

How do you know? See below...

> the .iso image is mounted via loopback on my Document root like so:
>
> under /var/www
>
> mount -o loop /var/www/ubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386.iso /var/www/ubuntu
>
> Just for background:  i'm running Intrepid Ibex (8.10) with the apache2 web
> server
>
> Checking the access.log file, I see: 192.9.200.2 - - [28/Jan/2009:15:53:56
> +0000] "GET /ubuntu/dists/intrepid/Release
>  HTTP/1.1" 200 1766 "-" "Wget"

The "200" there says "success"; which suggests that the iso image is
mounted and readable and accessible to the web server.

Something else is going on.

> When I try and run it manually like so:   I get:
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> wget -S 192.9.200.1 /ubuntu/dists/intrepid/Release

command wget.
option "-S" means "show the server response"
The next two arguments are urls for wget to fetch -- the first one is
assumed to be http://192.9.200.1, and the second one is in a form wget
doesn't recognise. Hence the error message.

You almost certainly want to give wget the single url
http://192.9.200.1/ubuntu/dists/intrepid/Release to run it manually,
and then check the content returned to see that it is sane.

All the best,

	f