Re: providing a static IP/Netmas/Gateway + location of a preseed file at boot prompt.
On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:48:19AM +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I would like to install my Debian machines with the Pressed D-I feature.
>
> At this moment, I dont have a decent DHCP/BootP server yet, and
> waiting for this to be achieved, I want to manually provide the IP
> address at the boot prompt.
>
Use the expert option in the installer.
The installer asks you how to set up your network.
It also prompts for the location of a preseed file.
Those two prompts between them should give you enough to go forward.
Hope this helps, with all good wishes,
AndyC
amacater@debian.org
> I already use it on others distributions install, but I miss the
> right syntax on Debian.
>
> What I want is to issue something similar to
>
> [...] ip=xxxxx netmask=yyyy gateway=zzzzz
> preseed/url=http://host/preseed.cfg
>
>
> My guess, reading the documentation is I cant directly put some
> preseed parameters in the boot parameters.
> What I want would be:
>
> [...] netcfg/get_ipaddress=92.168.1.42 \
> netcfg/get_netmask=255.255.255.0 \
> netcfg/get_gateway=192.168.1.1 \
> preseed/url=http://host/preseed.cfg
>
>
> Am I right?
>
>
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