Re: Install Sarge on a diskless workstation ?
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:35:07PM +0000, Lee Mitchell wrote:
> 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 !
Hey, that allows me to make some noise :-)
nfsroot is AFAIK a kernel compile option.
check the config of the install kernel.
>
> 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
>
Geert Stappers
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