On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 10:56:13PM +0200, Urs Hunkeler wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for all the help! > > In the end I added the domain-name-servers option to the dhcp server > configuration, and now it works. > > For those who misunderstood my mail, tftp and bootp (basically PXE) > worked before and the kernel and the initramdisk got loaded. The problam > was with the installer not being able to access the mirrors. Apparently > even though the installer asked me to provide a name server, it did not > use it :-(.
Wow. How did your network work before? (Hint: dnsmask is nice) > > Why use PXE? Well, I always wanted to do that. Also I have the nice > little box for the Alix, and it becomes quite cumbersome if you have to > unscrew everything, remove the CF card, install everything, then put it > back. I am much in favor of automating things, and apparently so is > Debian, why else would there be such handy features like preseeding (I'm > still learning about it...)? > > Anyways, the installation seemed to complete successfully. Unfortunately > Grub is not yet configured to use the serial console and crashes. Now I > need to find a way to mount the partition in a recovery environment in > order to change the Grub configuration... Boot the installer again, get into a shell. Mount and chroot. Note that you may need to progress in the installer up to the partitioning stage ot make sure all the drivers are loaded. -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
