Zack Perry
November 26th, 2012, 06:26 PM
Since the regular Ubuntu 12.10 no longer provides the alternate CD, so I downloaded lubuntu alternate-x86_64 CD to test PXE network install.
For the server install, everything went smoothly. But for the desktop, even in my preseed file I specified lubuntu-desktop, the desktop environment didn't get installed.
This is a surprise to me, as with ubuntu-12.04.1-alternate-x86_64.iso, I was able to install the desktop (ubuntu-desktop) successfully.
Out of curiosity, I did a find . -name "Packages.gz" in the loop mounted lubuntu-alternate-x86_64.iso, and saw the following:
[root@cobbler mnt]# find . -name "Packages.gz"|xargs ls -l
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 382856 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 30259 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/main/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/restricted/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 48538 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/universe/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
So, most Packages.gz files do not have content. Why?
I would appreciate any tips for getting the desktop install done just with the content of the CD.
Regards,
-- Zack
For the server install, everything went smoothly. But for the desktop, even in my preseed file I specified lubuntu-desktop, the desktop environment didn't get installed.
This is a surprise to me, as with ubuntu-12.04.1-alternate-x86_64.iso, I was able to install the desktop (ubuntu-desktop) successfully.
Out of curiosity, I did a find . -name "Packages.gz" in the loop mounted lubuntu-alternate-x86_64.iso, and saw the following:
[root@cobbler mnt]# find . -name "Packages.gz"|xargs ls -l
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 382856 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 30259 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/main/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/multiverse/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/restricted/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/restricted/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 48538 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/universe/binary-i386/Packages.gz
-r--r--r-- 8 root root 20 Oct 17 00:26 ./dists/quantal/universe/debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages.gz
So, most Packages.gz files do not have content. Why?
I would appreciate any tips for getting the desktop install done just with the content of the CD.
Regards,
-- Zack