Adam Lydick wrote: > Package: installation-reports > > This is a general wishlist item for the installer, but I wasn't sure > what package to file this against. Please reroute it as needed. > > Most of the laptops that I install debian on are single-spindle > sub-notebooks. This generally requires netbooting, as not all of them > support boot off various USB devices (memory stick, external cdrom, > etc). It would be very helpful to have an installation method that did > nothing but init the network hardware and start up a bootp server to > serve itself over the network. Then I could very easily kick off the > installation via PXE from any desktop/two-spindle laptop that I had > available by plugging them both into a hub.
This would also be interesting for other hardware without any convenient removable media, which is quite common for e.g. some arm/mips systems. > Desired behavior: > * Get one desktop machine. Insert debian install CD. > * Reboot desktop. Select "install-server" installation method. This reqires a Debian live CD system, which we don't have yet. > * Desktop boots linux and starts up a dhcp + tftp server. Without further network configuration this would mean an isolated network, so the client still has to install from a stack of removable media. > * Get target machine. Boot off PXE. > * Desktop assigns IP to target, sends the kernel and ramdisk via tftp. > * Install normally on the target machine. A fully networked install from a (local) http server would by nicer. Feeding a dozen or so CDs to the client isn't fun. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
