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. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
