Re: suggestion: single net-boot floppy
Good idea. This is what debian-installer (replacement for boot-floppies) does,
see the debian-boot archive. debian-installer, unfortunately, isn't getting
much activity right now since the install team has been working on gettign woody
boot-floppies working.
David
Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 01:53:07PM -0700 wrote:
>
> I read the boot-floppy thread a few days ago, but didn't see this kind of
> suggestion. So I'd like to propose the following boot+install mechanism
>
> A *single* floppy image, with an absurdly cut down version of the kernel, that
> would support not much more than IP, basic e2fs, and networking.
>
> "direct" net connectivity is getting more and more common these days. So I
> think we could help a lot of people get debian initially installed at a
> site, if there was a single "download this floppy and boot off the net"
> mechanism.
>
> You boot off the floppy, it makes a ramdisk, and downloads the normal
> "root" and "drivers" images to there. Then it proceeds to do a "normal"
> debian install.
>
> Assuming that not all the ethernet drivers would fit on a single floppy
> with the kernel, lets say you have to choose from four possible floppy
> images to download.
>
> I'm envisioning a web page, with a name something like
>
> http://www.debian.org/quickstart
>
> The page would have little more than the following:
>
> Choose your ethernet card from the following list
> [blah blah blah]
> [select]
>
> Which would give them a link to the appropriate image,
> (along with DOS floppy image install tools) which they then download
> and reboot.
>
> We could make this really really simple for folks.
>
> Trouble is, I'm no kernel tweaking guru, so I'm asking for someone else to
> volunteer to do the work. But I DO offer to help you test it.
>
>
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