Re: Installation report on CDROM-less machine

[Cameron Patrick <cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au>]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:01:46PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:

| I have tried to do that but was unsuccessful. Could you describe how
| you got it working (what files you used to boot with, if you had to
| make a custom initrd, and the relevant section of dhcpd.conf).

I used the "net.gz" initrd from the iso I downloaded and created a netboot
image with the command below:

mknbi-linux --output=sarge-installer.img /mnt/iso/install/vmlinuz /mnt/iso/install/net.gz --append='vga=normal ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/rd/0 init=/linuxrc devfs=mount,dall' --rootmode=rw

The --append= came from the command in boot.bat on the CD - I wasn't
aware of the page on the wiki.

In dhcpd.conf:

host merlin {
	hardware ethernet 00:E0:4C:AC:00:79;
	fixed-address merlin.home;
	filename "/deb/sarge-installer.img";
}

Cheers,

Cameron.