On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 08:51:15PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > How to Boot from network ? > I have no 'tftpd' running ?
So run one. Plenty of them around. Easy to setup. > Because the floppies are working properly even with my Intel 1000MT Well that's new. > I use 2.4.26 curenly But is that an amd64 kernel or just i386? > A release which does detect a deactivated on-board NIC > which does not work and not find a INTEL GBit NIC Well it SHOULD find the intel. > The debian-installer installs someting but not a working system... > If I start the CD, it ask me three or four questions and it > install the whole thing and after rebooting nothing does work > > I do not like to download every day tonns of ISO images for nothing... Well the netinstall iso isn't that big. > Do not work... I suspect someone would like bug reports about that then, since it should work. I have tried the sarge installer on a number of different machines (some not even x86) and it has worked fine in most cases so far. > Now I have created a 250 MB hda1 partiton with Woody and it works... > > Then I have installed debootstrap and installed on a second > partition SID. and after this, I have chrooted and installed > a 2.4.27 Kernel and put lilo in hda5 > > Back in hda1 I have setup lilo for the hda5 and now it works... > > Note: I hate the debian-installer ! > It is like Windows... > ...it installs something and you do not know what ! > > Oh yes, I have had false keymaps, false /etc/networking/interfaces > false /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf... But that still just gives you i386 right? Len Sorensen
