On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:29:42PM +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
> We've got quite a few machines from HP, of type ProLiant DL360 G5. We
> used to install etch using the etch installer netboot media +
> pxelinux. This worked quite fine.
>
> Now I'm testing lenny (beta2 installer), and I found that the network
> cards in these servers (bnx2) seem to require a firmware, which is not
> in the installer image, but is available seperately. As the firmware is
> not in the image, and I'm booting from a PXE server, installing just
> doesn't work (without plugging in an USB key, but that makes booting
> from PXE quite useless).
Please use the daily builds instead of beta2 to do your tests. A lot of
issues present in the beta 2 have been addressed since.
> Is this the intended behaviour?
Yes: Debian is 100% free software and the firmware needed for bnx2 is
not. The other option would have been to completely remove the bnx2
module from kernel shipped by Debian.
> How is one supposed to install from the network/PXE on such common
> hardware?
You will need to add the firmware to the initrd.gz available on your
TFTP server. You can find it in the bnx2-firmware package in the
non-free section of the archive. Then use gzip and cpio to extract and
compress the image again:
* Extract in current directory:
$ zcat /path/to/installer/initrd.gz | cpio -iv
* Create a new image from the current directory:
$ find . -print0 | cpio -0 -H newc -ov | \
gzip -c > /path/to/installer/initrd.gz
Cheers,
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Jérémy Bobbio .''`.
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