Re: Installing Etch With TFTP: Linux starts, I/O Stops
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:06:41AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Friday 10 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > Where is the actual install media?
>
> That's one thing I'm not clear about. Not one article I've found on the
> web that has explained this has said where to put any install media. I
> was beginning to wonder if data was automatically pulled from a URL or
> something since I did not see instructions on placing any other install
> files.
Indeed, the install guide is not so clear at this point. It merely
points you to a complete tarball that includes the whole PXE network
layout. But doesn't really tell you how to add it to an existing layout.
We just include the kernel (vmlinux) and network-install initrd in our
custom PXE menu. We also use a simple preseed script to give the rest of
the parameters to the installer.
The entry I have thus far is:
LABEL install-etch
MENU LABEL Install Debian Etch
KERNEL debian-installer/linux.etch.r4
APPEND initrd=debian-installer/initrd.etch.r4.gz DEBCONF_PRIORITY=critical vga=normal auto=true ramdisk_size=32768 url=http://myserver/netinst/debian.preseed --
debian.preseed contains the rest of the instructions for the installer,
including the Debian mirror to use.
On previous versions you could just take an install CD image and
loopback-mount it as an installation source. This no longer works
without some tweaks, as CDs now are not signed.
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