Hi Bill, I see two issues with the existing blog entry at How to mirror images locally / https://maas.io/docs/how-to-mirror-images-locally:
- a typo
MAAS will write the images to disk in the directory defined by the variable ‘IMAGE_DIR’ above, and the ‘location’ of the new boot source will be:
should be something like
sstream-mirror will write the images to disk in the directory defined by the variable ‘IMAGE_DIR’ above, and the ‘location’ of the new boot source will be:
- it is missing the essential step: How to start the sstream service to serve those images? You mention
URL=http://<myserver>/maas/images/ephemeral-v3/stable/out of the blue, but what should happen with that URL? Use it as a custom images endpoint? But then again, how to start this http server?
Is there a chance that you could provide a working example how to operate simplestreams?