PXE install on Sony Vaio V505
Hi,
I finally upgraded my notebook it now has a new harddisk, but unfortunately
the slimline DVD drive I bought is too high. If anybody knows where I can
get a super slimline DVD/CD-RW combo or better, that is 9mm high instead of
12.5mm, please let me know. With no working CD-drive and no floppy drive in
the noteobok, I decided to try PXE netinstall, a first for me. I had a
little trouble to get tftpboot going, the instructions I found on the d-i
pages and the debian wiki where a little contradicting wrt the location of
the files (/tftpboot vs /var/lib/tftpboot). Once I had that figured out and
the notebook would find it's files, everything went great straight from the
net.
The installer found two network devices, eth0, an Intel e100, and eth1, my
firewire connector, and asked me which to use. So firewire does not always
come before ethernet, as happened to me last week on AMD64, but d-i now lets
me chose the correct device. Everything afterwards was a standard install,
no problems came up (except for apt-proxy running very slow on my Pentium2
server, so I had to fall back to the AthlonXP but that is not related to d-i).
My only comment would be about a /.aptitude directory with an empty config
file. Why is it there? Why is it in the root directory? I never use
aptitude, but if it has to create a directory, shouldn't that be in some
other place, like /var maybe?
Great work!
Christian
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