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debian-installer package

Preseeding Config from HTTP and FTP does not work

Bug #95398 reported by Andreas Roth on 2007-03-24

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #94786: [netboot] /lib/preseed/fetch-methods/{ftp,http} empty. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	debian-installer (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	initrd-netboot (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Fetching Preseed Config from http or ftp fails, because the files /lib/preseed/fetch-methods/http and /lib/preseed/fetch-methods/ftp are empty.

I used the current netboot image from
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/feisty/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/

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Andreas Roth (aroth) wrote on 2007-03-25:

In the included initrd.gz archive the ftp and the http file are linked together, which causes that both files are empty when the installer is started.
If you unpack the initrd manually, both files contain the same content (and they are linked; see cpio error msg).