Re: Installing Etch With TFTP: Linux starts, I/O Stops
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 05:12:47AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> On Saturday 11 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I did find out, from experience, though, that there is no need for an
> installation medium. The entire install was either in the initrd or
> downloaded by the installer that was in there. I don't have that page
> in my browser at the moment so I don't remember if it was in a wiki or
> not. I think it may have been. I did get an account on the Soekris
> wiki, which had the instructions for everything to do except how to set
> up the PXEBoot (and for that it linked to the page we're discussing)
> and I added in the part about specifying the console as the serial
> device and the baud rate in the config file.
>
> Oh, and as an experiment, considering all the trouble I had, at one
> point I just unzipped the entire netboot.tgz (or was it tar.gz?) file
> in the tftpboot directory and edited the default config file and it
> worked perfectly. I think it was easier to add 2-3 lines to the config
> file than to be straight on which file to delete and which link to
> delete and replace.
Which is why I prefer a preseed file to point to the mirror.
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