[TriLUG] how to install Ubuntu over http in virt-manager

[John Brier]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 11:41 PM, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> and this time during the installation I gave path http://localhost/sk I was
> able to see the contents in browser http://localhost/sk which you will see
> in a normal CD. But beginning installation I got same error
>
>     ValueError: Could not find an installable distribution at '
> http://localhost/sk
>
> So I want to just confirm if http install is done only this way or some
> other way because the installation is not proceeding.

Wait, are you sure that the installer is resolving localhost from
*within* the guest to the host system's web server?

are you sure you don't want to give something like the public IP of
the host system?

Do you see the debian installer trying to load any files from the
apache access logs?

JB