On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:46:18PM +0200, Pål Løberg wrote: > > Is it possible to do the entire installation of Debian i386 from TFTP > without using any disks? > > I've got a diskless workstation with a network card that allot me to boot > it using TFTP, but all the info I've found on installing Debian using TFTP > (not much either) seems to require booting from a floppy. i think it should be possible, i know it is for sparc and powerpc. i have no idea on intel (is that even what your using?) on powerpc all that you need to do is setup bootp to shoot the bootloader over, and the bootloader gets its config file from tftp. the config is like lilo where you have an image section like this: image=linux label=debian initrd=root.bin initrd-size=8192 this will vary for other systems, as they have different bootstrap mechanisms. you do need to make the installation files available via NFS or some other means i don't think you can install drivers/base over tftp (not sure on that...) but if you have tftp NFS should not be a problem. all you really need to figure out is how to netboot the kernel with the ramdisk, this is usually handled by the bootloader (lilo, yaboot etc) if this is intel i don't know what bootloader they use for network boot (if any) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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