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Bug#274243: marked as done (debian-installer: Provide prebuilt nbi for etherboot)

Your message dated Mon, 04 May 2015 01:42:04 +0100
with message-id <1430700124.4113.134.camel@decadent.org.uk>
and subject line Re: debian-installer: Provide prebuilt nbi for etherboot
has caused the Debian Bug report #274243,
regarding debian-installer: Provide prebuilt nbi for etherboot
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-installer
Severity: wishlist


The images offered in the netboot directory require expert massage to
be used with etherboot.  The manual gives this issue only one sentence
and does not explain that in order to use them, you have to use mkelf-linux
(from the mknbi package) on another machine and that you have to 
provide the correct kernel flags, which themselves require effort to
find.

Since the majority of i386 systems do not have network boot PROMs installed,
use of etherboot should be well documented, and there is justification for 
providing a pre-made nbi as well as a short recipe for constructing nbi
images from custom kernel and/or initrd.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7sabbath
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

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Closing after 11 years on the wishlist.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
If you seem to know what you are doing, you'll be given more to do.

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