* Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080909 23:11]: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 03:29:42PM +0200, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > > We've got quite a few machines from HP, of type ProLiant DL360 G5. We > > used to install etch using the etch installer netboot media + > > pxelinux. This worked quite fine. > > > > Now I'm testing lenny (beta2 installer), and I found that the network > > cards in these servers (bnx2) seem to require a firmware, which is not > > in the installer image, but is available seperately. As the firmware is > > not in the image, and I'm booting from a PXE server, installing just > > doesn't work (without plugging in an USB key, but that makes booting > > from PXE quite useless). > > Please use the daily builds instead of beta2 to do your tests. A lot of > issues present in the beta 2 have been addressed since.
Will try again with those. > > Is this the intended behaviour? > > Yes: Debian is 100% free software and the firmware needed for bnx2 is > not. The other option would have been to completely remove the bnx2 > module from kernel shipped by Debian. I fully understand. Why was this then OK for etch, but not for lenny? (Not wanting to start a discussion about this, just want to know why things have changed.) > > How is one supposed to install from the network/PXE on such common > > hardware? > > You will need to add the firmware to the initrd.gz available on your > TFTP server. You can find it in the bnx2-firmware package in the > non-free section of the archive. Then use gzip and cpio to extract and > compress the image again: > > * Extract in current directory: > $ zcat /path/to/installer/initrd.gz | cpio -iv > > * Create a new image from the current directory: > $ find . -print0 | cpio -0 -H newc -ov | \ > gzip -c > /path/to/installer/initrd.gz Thanks for the instructions. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
