pxe-boot debian-installer of emdebian/grip squeeze
as a fan of debian i finally get to try something cool at work:
setting up an alix6f2 from pc-engines as a PXE-boot server that can,
amongst other things, do unattended copies of itself.
as we're using CF cards of only 2gbyte in size at the moment (possibly
extending to 4), and because i like emdebian, i thought i'd give it a
shot... except unfortunately i ran into this:
Unpacking dash (from .../dash_0.5.5.1-7.4em1_i386.deb) ...
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz.tmp': No such
file or directory
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/dash_0.5.5.1-7.4em1_i386.deb (--install):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/dash_0.5.5.1-7.4em1_i386.deb
is there anything that i can do which will allow debian-installer
preseeding to work... without having to resort to debian/stable
installs [followed by an apt-get dist-upgrade]?
btw i've installed the ssh thing, which allowed me to get in: by doing
"mkdir -p /usr/share/man/man1" followed by "touch
/usr/share/man/man1/sh.1.gz" seems to get one stage further. but..
the next stage is: there's no kernel! :) methinks i am going to be
doing a post-hook "apt-get dist-upgrade", what a pain.
suggestions?
l.
pxe boot line:
label alix6
menu label alix6 i386
kernel debian-installer/i386/linux
append DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 console=ttyS0,115200n8 locale=en_GB
console-setup/layoutcode=gb netcfg/dhcp_timeout=90 tasks=standard
pkgsel/language-pack-patterns= pkgsel/install-language-support=false
nomodeset initrd=debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz
netcfg/choose_interface=eth0
url=tftp://10.7.0.1/pxelinux.cfg/alix-preseed --
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