> > For the most part, things go well. The installer actually does load up. > DHCP at this point fails (haven't sniffed the wire yet to see if it's > requesting one) but a static IP assignment for this purpose is fine. It > does fetch machine packages over http. However, at some point, it goes > back to try and pull from the floppy disk, which of course I didn't boot > off of. I'm *assuming* that it wants to get the kernel off the boot > floppy. FWIW, I've been doing exactely that the last days, successfully; versions involved (on the server): ii syslinux 1.48-2 Bootloader for Linux/i386 using MS-DOS flopp ii dhcp 2.0pl4-2 DHCP server for automatic IP address assignm ii tftpd-hpa 0.14-2 HPA's tftp server the DHCP and tftp server is a potato box; tftpd-hpa is the woody one built on potato (because the pxelinux [or was it the PXE bios?] needs tftp tsize support, IIRC). bootdisk images are potato/current, i.e. 2.2.26-2001-06-14, idepci/root.bin and idepci/linux. pxelinux.cfg/default: LABEL debian KERNEL linux APPEND load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_size=16384 root=/dev/ram0 initrd=root.bin disksize=1.44 DHCP from dbootstrap's "configure the network" step works, and the whole installation too; the machine I installed has no floppy drive, but at least I've seen no floppy-related error messages. HTH, cm. -- ** christian mock in vienna, austria -- http://www.tahina.priv.at/~cm/ Ich beraube mich doch nicht des Vergnügens zu beobachten, wie sich diese zarte Knospe der Dummheit weiter entfaltet. Markus Pirchner ueber xxx in abm-mi
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