Holger Schurig wrote: > I once made a custom Mandrake 8.2 installation system for my office where I > just had a floppy and all the rest was downloaded over the network. > > This involved basically a modified SYSLINUX.CFG on the netboot disk that had > a entry like > > label mundn > kernel vmlinuz > append initrd=network.rdz ramdisk_size=32000 root=/dev/ram3 \ > vga=788 automatic=network:dhcp,method:nfs,server:192.168.233.1,\ > directory:/usr/samba/arc/linux/mandrake82 \ > auto_install=mundn/auto_inst.cfg.pl > > and an Mandrake 8.2 CD image on my server exported via NFS. > > > The whole idea that this way it was very easy for me to make changed, e.g. > update RPMs or update the auto_inc.cfg.pl file to test things out. > > > Now I want to make tests with the new debian installer (e.g. I want to put > my own stuff into the various hooks, e.g. to set my own > debconf-preferences). Currently I'd have to burn always a test CD. > > > Or am I missing something and is something similar possible with one of the > many images available? Not with the released images. The problem is that d-i is too big for one floppy with all the translations. It is possible to cut out a lot of that stuff, and possibly use a custom kernel, and cram it onto one floppy that is able to get on the net and download the rest of the installer and do an install. I know it's been done, but I don't know if the image has been made public. -- see shy jo
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