Root image for network install ?
Hello Debian Hackers,
here is a further dependent question:
Although I am not new in Linux-stuff, and although
a participate some GNU projects or even HP and VAX Linux
projects (device driver development), I am not able
to fully understand the debian installation (sorry).
To get a fully naked installation (empty machine),
I need the current rescue floppy, containing SILO
and kernel. This floppy isinstrumented to ask for
a root floppy.
The root floppy download from the web is one, which
is only possible to use for locally installation,
for example for CD ROM. But which floppy or image
I have to use for the "standard" network installation
via ftp ? I cannot find it !
The drivers are only drivers (I think), the base system
is the tar ball for a root file system (debootstrap
cannot unpack it on a i386 system, as I want to install
a SPARC machine).
Which root floppy I have to use ???
I already installed debian from CD on a HP-PA-RISC
machine, and I updated a Athlon-PC from RedHat to
debian via debootstrap (which worked quite well).
So I miss the cross-install between different
target types (see mail before), I missed the offline
install for a root file system on a NFS server
for NFS-Root clients, and I miss the default
procedure for network install (root floppy).
I hope you can give some hints here ...
Christoph P.
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