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Monthly Archive for November, 2017

Automated installations: CentOS vs Ubuntu

Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 18th, 2017

A/K/A Ubuntu for CentOS kickstart users I needed to install Ubuntu on a server so I finally got around to figuring out how to do an automated, unattended installation. Specifically, how to install Ubuntu on bare-metal over the network using an existing PXE setup in an all-CentOS environment, as you would in a datacenter. I […]

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debmirror defaults to downloading ‘sid’ if you like it or not

Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 4th, 2017

It turns out when you run debmirror on CentOS 7 from EPEL, it sneakily (not really) lays down a configuration file in /etc/debmirror.conf. Despite the ‘-d‘ argument, e.g. ‘-d xenial,xenial-security,xenial-updates‘, it happily tries to mirror the sid distribution. I saw other people having this problems and it was maddeningly to finally figure it out at […]

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