[Bug 659632] Re: netinstall refuses to use local mirror

[William]

Hi,

i have the exact same issue.
As a workaround i added two entries

d-i     mirror/country          string enter information manually
>> d-i     mirror/http/countries   string enter information manually
d-i     mirror/http/hostname    string yourmirror-here.org
>> d-i     mirror/http/mirror      string yourmirror-here.org
d-i     mirror/http/directory   string /ubuntu
d-i     mirror/suite            string natty
d-i     mirror/http/proxy       string

This seems to work but it's not a nice clean solution :)

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Title:
  netinstall refuses to use local mirror

Status in “debian-installer” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I am in charge of Ubuntu deployments at our organization, and in the
  past we have used kickstart + preseed files to deploy a tested,
  customized Ubuntu workstation. Although we do not have a huge number
  of Ubuntu users, I perform a substantial amount of testing on a
  configuration prior to mass deployment. Because of this all this
  testing, I have found that using apt-mirror to create a local mirror
  of packages saves me an enormous amount of time and bandwidth. This
  setup worked with both jaunty and lucid. However, with maverick,
  copying and updating the kickstart and preseed files does not work as
  before. While the system configuration settings from the kickstart
  seem to be followed correctly, the installer completely ignores the
  local mirror configuration and downloads every package from the
  Internet.

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