Bug#222381: installation-reports: Installation Report

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

"Chris Tillman" <toff1@cox.net> writes:

> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:52:09AM -0800, Owner wrote:
> > Report:
> > Wow, this is a very nice change.  I required the 3COM drivers to
> > boot a kernel.  With the new installer it was simply a quick job
> > of mounting the initrd, chrooting and doing a udpkg -i
> > net-extras.udeb.  Very nice.
> 
> This sounds like a process that should be documented. Are there
> other udebs that should or could be handled this way?

Thats basically how all udebs are installed in the initrd in the first
place. But normaly this would fail for space reasons, but pxe allows
larger initrds than e.g. the eltorito boot image or floppy.

> > After things got burning, I found another issue.  In my situation, I need to move
> > the initrd as well as the vmlinux to the netboot server.  So I tried the default 
> > of scp (DOH..  This is an installer), ftp and finally nfs.  Shock and amazement,
> > nothing worked.  I was saved by doing a chroot to the target and apt-getting
> > ftp.  It was very ugly, but it worked.
> 
> wget is in the installer. It would be nice if, when the user types ftp, the
> response could be 'Try wget'.

But not 'wput'. He wants to upload the kernel and initrd to the
server.

MfG
        Goswin