Quoting Ben DJ (bendj095124367913213465@gmail.com): > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote: > > debian-boot is primarily a development > > list. > > > > This is going to be my last contribution to this thread. > > > > Wow. You might want to clarify that with some of your more senior > community members -- who suggested that I bring my questions here. Well, Frans is definitely what we could call a "senior" community member, you know. After all, he managed the Debian Installer release for about two years..:-). So, if such concept exists (it doesn't), I think he would qualify for it. > > As for "last contribution" ... same here. Debian's not worth it to me > if this is the reception. That's probably depending on the point of view. As I've pointed already, every contribution here is made on a volunteer basis and one cannot expect anyone to "hold hands" to users so that they can setup things that are supposed to be documented in our documentation. All of us have our priorities and we can't force anyone to make deep help to users as his|her priority. Neither Frans nor myself nor anyone else is paid for this and the support you get is done on the free time we want to spend on this issue (which is probably a different context from your own context while setting up your installation server...if I assume this is part of your paid work) You may very well find that this doc.umentation is not enough....but we sort of expect you first try to get through it and look at what it says. I'm not myself a deep expert in preseeded installs (localization work is more of my business), but it seems that http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs02.html#preseed-loading and http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apbs04.html#preseed-network already have a few suggestions to solve out the chicken and egg problem mentioned by Frans in his contribution. You certainly need to preseed basic network configuration items such as IP address, netmask, etc, from the boot command line so that the network configuration step has enough to proceed and retrieve the preseed file through the given URL. Setting this should be the required minimum (so all these should be passed through the boot command line) # Static network configuration. #d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string 192.168.1.1 #d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string 192.168.1.42 #d-i netcfg/get_netmask string 255.255.255.0 #d-i netcfg/get_gateway string 192.168.1.1 #d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean true
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