info: netbooting, installing to usb stick (workaround)
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Hi,
I just tried to install sarge onto my STB-3036 unit via netbooting
(dhcpd/tftpd). The only 'disks' available on this unit is 2x128 MB usb
memory sticks.
Had to boot with "linux debian-installer/framebuffer=false".
The netboot image, however, doesn't have the usb-storage module
included. Thus, I had to extract this module from
kernel-image-2.4.26-1-386_2.4.26-4_i386.deb and place it on a web
server available to the STB-3036.
Then when partman prompted me to "Partition disks", I went to a shell
and worked my way around the problem:
mknod /dev/sda b 8 0
mknod /dev/sdb b 8 16
mkdir /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/kernel/drivers/usb/storage
cd /lib/modules/2.4.26-1-386/kernel/drivers/usb/storage
wget http://www-host/foo/bar/usb-storage.o
depmod -a
modprobe usb-storage
modprobe sd_mod
Went back to Alt+F1 and reloaded the partitioner. Now I could see my usb
sticks available as sda and sdb.
I was really nervous at the very end of the installation, since 'df -h'
told me that 116.4 MB out of 117.1 MB (on /) was used :)
Had a separate partition for /var where 81.6 MB out of 88.5 was used.
Swap space was 32 MB (20 MB was in use).
Upon reboot I went to BIOS, only to discover that the STB-3036 in fact
does not supporting boot from usb. Yeah, really stupid I did not check
up on this, but I was certain that I has seen this option in BIOS.
Well, at least I hope somebody with a usb bootable unit can make use of
this stuff (I'll add it to http://wiki.debian.net/).
B/R,
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