Re: lenny Installer with PXE on HP DL360G5 / bnx2
On 2008-09-09 23:11:13, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:29:42PM +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > How is one supposed to install from the network/PXE on such common
> > hardware?
>
> You will need to add the firmware to the initrd.gz available on your
> TFTP server. You can find it in the bnx2-firmware package in the
> non-free section of the archive. Then use gzip and cpio to extract and
> compress the image again:
>
> * Extract in current directory:
> $ zcat /path/to/installer/initrd.gz | cpio -iv
>
> * Create a new image from the current directory:
> $ find . -print0 | cpio -0 -H newc -ov | \
> gzip -c > /path/to/installer/initrd.gz
>
I've tried this with the lenny installer daily build from today; on
amd64. Installation works, but:
- the firmware files on the installed system (in /lib/firmware) are owned
by the initial user, not by root.
- the firmware-bnx2 package is not installed, those files are not
claimed by any package. I wonder how they will get updated, if
needed?
Are these known issues or shall I write a bug report? (Didn't find any
bugs against debian-installer, but then that may be the wrong
package?)
BTW, the manual [1] doesn't seem to contain this info yet, may be
this should be added at some point?
Chris
[1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/
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Christian Hofstädtler
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