Otavio Salvador wrote:
Yes, I have the latest svn checkout of d-i and am making my own netboot images with extra udebs I made.|| On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 21:46:03 +0100|| Sam Liddicott <sam@liddicott.com> wrote:sl> I had heard about an SSH service but couldn't find any details on how sl> it worked. sl> This would be ideal. Is it able to bring up the network connection sl> without interaction? Yes. Do you not tried d-i yet?
Well, let me try do a minimal overview. Current debian-installer run a initial base install system which the base work like, in netinst, detect the network card and configure it. Since you can use a DHCP server, this can be automated easily. After it, it load from network the modules (udebs) and run the baseinstallation system.One thing you can do is change the initial step to have thenetwork-console module
This is the bit I'm stuch on
and then provide ways to pass the password like parameter and then all is done ;-)
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currently expert mode stil inists to ask me which country and language before bringing up the network - or maybe the kernel boot string to specify expert mode has changed since beta 3?You can try the last netinst image and load on expert mode. So you can load the network-console later and use it remotely.
The network udebs are obviously already on the initrd,andI can make a tshd udeb that keeps launching tshd until it stays launched, but its getting past the initial questions so that the network comes up that is troubling me.
Sam