Install Sarge on a diskless workstation ?
Hi folks,
Hope this is the right place to ask...
I've been playing around with a Mini ITX machine (VIA M10000) and
previously had woody installed and configured to boot using PXE and tftp
with its root filesystem mounted via NFS from another machine.
However, I get bored easilly, so decided to have a play with sarge and
its new wizzo installer :-)
My question is, where do i tell the install process that i want to use a
root filesystem that is mounted from NFS ?
There are no disks whatsoever in this machine, and the install proces
doesn't seem too keen on letting me install it on anything other than a
local disk.
I've tried mounting the exported filesystem manually in a console but
the version of mount doesn't appear to support nfs (maybe i'm just doing
something stupid here).
I'm using the netboot images from here :-
http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/
Any help would be much appreciated, even if its just a simple "sorry not
supported yet message" cos at the moment i'm just convinced i'm doing
something dumb !
Up to the mounting a filesystem bit though, i'm impressed with the new
installer. It detects my not so common hardware fine and configures the
network ok, so well done folks, looks like its gonna be great when done !
Cheers
Lee Mitchell
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