On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 05:12:47AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Saturday 11 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:06:41AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > On Friday 10 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > > Where is the actual install media? > > > > > > That's one thing I'm not clear about. Not one article I've found > > > on the web that has explained this has said where to put any > > > install media. I was beginning to wonder if data was automatically > > > pulled from a URL or something since I did not see instructions on > > > placing any other install files. > > > > Indeed, the install guide is not so clear at this point. It merely > > points you to a complete tarball that includes the whole PXE network > > layout. But doesn't really tell you how to add it to an existing > > layout. > > I did find out, from experience, though, that there is no need for an > installation medium. The entire install was either in the initrd or > downloaded by the installer that was in there. I don't have that page > in my browser at the moment so I don't remember if it was in a wiki or > not. I think it may have been. I did get an account on the Soekris > wiki, which had the instructions for everything to do except how to set > up the PXEBoot (and for that it linked to the page we're discussing) > and I added in the part about specifying the console as the serial > device and the baud rate in the config file. > > Oh, and as an experiment, considering all the trouble I had, at one > point I just unzipped the entire netboot.tgz (or was it tar.gz?) file > in the tftpboot directory and edited the default config file and it > worked perfectly. I think it was easier to add 2-3 lines to the config > file than to be straight on which file to delete and which link to > delete and replace.
Which is why I prefer a preseed file to point to the mirror. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]