Bug#187654: marked as done (boot-floppies: network/diskless installation is broken)
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Subject: boot-floppies: network/diskless installation is broken
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 20030404
Severity: normal
(Referring to the woody/intel boot floppies as in
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/)
The various tftpboot.img files in the different flavour directories
are just copies of the corresponding linux.bin files. These are
kernel images, which (according to the corresponding kernel-config
files and my experiments) contain only a few NIC drivers compiled in;
the rest, including drivers for NICs found in modern PCs are compiled
only as modules. There is no separate root filesystem (root.bin) for
TFTP installs, so one has to use the generic one, which (perhaps
because of size constraints) does not contain these drivers as modules
either. Therefore one cannot initialize the network card during
installation without first loading the driver module from a
non-network media -- that is, a true network (really diskless)
out-of-the-box installation of Debian is not possible, altough the
installation document suggests otherwise.
What should be done is either one of the following:
a/ Create a separate kernel for TFTP installations, which
would contain all the NIC drivers compiled in, not as modules.
b/ Create a separate root filesystem for TFTP installations, which
would contain the NIC drivers as modules.
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Subject: boot-floppies end of life
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I'm closing all bug reports filed on the boot-floppies since this
codebase has reached its end of life. boot-floppies is only in Debian
oldstable now (and temporarily in unstable because of bug #224469).
The new installer for sarge and beyond is of course, the
debian-installer. It solves a great many issues present in the
boot-floppies.
If you believe that your boot-floppies bug is still present in
debian-installer somehow, then please reopen the bug report and reassign
it there, or perhaps better, file a new bug report.
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