Dnia 17 listopad 2015 o 10:07 Ian Campbell <[email protected]> napisał(a): > On Sun, 2015-11-15 at 12:04 +0100, Łukasz Stelmach wrote: >> Q1. What is the difference between (the purpose of) network >> -console.cfg and netboot.cfg? > > network-console images are the ones which run the installer as a ssh > server for headless systems. netboot is just the regular installer > which assumes a console and/or serial port.
Provided a proper network configuration is available. Either from a DHCP server or as preseed parameters in kernel command line (console is needed to input them). >> Q1-a. If I want to prepare a patch for d-i to support NSA325 should I >> modify netboot.cfg too? > > It depends on whether a NSA325 typically has a console/serial or is > headless. It sounds like it is headless in which case network-console > is probably the one you want. "Typically"[1], user needs to open the device and attach UART converter to get the console. OK, I get it, network-console is a superset of netboot anyway. >> Q1-b. Is there any tutorial or a checklist how to port d-i to a new >> platform? > > Not that I know of, other than git log on the relevant components to > see what the last guy did I guess. "Relevant components" is a key phrase I hoped to find as a title of a section in such tutorial. > For headless you might also be interested in oldsys-preseed which tries > to extract things like network cfg from the factory firmware [...] That's interesting. I will investigate it. Thank you, for the information. [1] http://zyxel.nas-central.org/wiki/Serial_port_%28NSA325%29 -- Miłego dnia, Łukasz Stelmach
