Bug#505773: debian-installer: Bootable netboot image for USB stick patch
Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> writes:
> Quoting Kenshi Muto (kmuto@debian.org):
>
>> After this patch is applied, 'make build_netboot' will build boot.img.gz
>> in dest/netboot/ directory for i386 and amd64 with both text and gtk
>> installers.
>> Because I didn't know well about other architectures, my patch didn't
>> touch them.
>>
>> This boot.img.gz is more convenience than hd-media image for usual
>> installation scene (install Debian into machine with wired network),
>> because it isn't necessary to copy any ISOs, isn't necessary to setup
>> TFTP server, and is pretty small. Currently I set 63MB for this image
>> but we can change it to even 31MB. (I assumed user may copy firmwares
>> and something into it).
>
>
> Nice. However, as this requires documentation changes, I think this
> should be post-Lenny.
Kenshi, could you propose a text for it to the installer guide?
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