Re: Two questions about installing Debian on a Thecus 2100 (-a-like)

[John Winters <john@sinodun.org.uk>]

John Winters wrote:
[snip]
> Thank you for your very complete replies.  I believe what I need to do 
> now is:
>
> 1) Unpack the Thecus firmware (done that)
> 2) Interrupt redboot with telnet
> 3) Suck a couple of files over with tftp
> 4) Boot into the Thecus firmware
> 5) Do an upgrade again, but this time with the official installer image

Apologies for replying to myself, but can I do it an even shorter way? 
Rather than sucking the Thecus firmware over by tftp and then running 
it, is it not possible to suck the Debian installer components over and 
run those?

I've unpacked n2100.bin and it contains:

-rw-r--r-- 1 john john 3806701 2007-06-15 22:09 initrd
-rwxr-xr-x 1 john john    2382 2007-06-15 22:09 up.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john       6 2007-06-15 22:09 version
-rw-r--r-- 1 john john 1172036 2007-06-15 22:09 vmlinuz

Presumably it is theoretically possible to just pull those into memory 
and set them running - or have I missed something?

TIA,
John