hey Lars, On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 01:14:51PM +0300, Lars Nood?n wrote: > I'm having trouble modifying the debian installer to work with a serial > console. I've done it before, but that was more than two years ago. The > wiki has two instructions, but they are apparently not enough to get > going with the console: > > http://wiki.soekris.info/Installing_Debian_Linux_5.0#Modify_installer_to_work_with_a_serial_console > > What else is needed?
In a nutshell, if you want to install Debian 6.0.1, using OpenBSD as TFTP and DHCP server Netboot files downloaden: ftp://ftp.be.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian6.0.1/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz Unpacken in /tftp directory in pxe server: dhcpd.conf: booten from pxelinux.0 in /tftp in de /tftp directory: pxelinux.cfg/default: add console 0 serial 0 19200 0 (-> on top) change: prompt 1 in /tftp/debian-installer/i386/boot-screens/txt.cfg: default install label install menu label ^Install menu default kernel debian-installer/i386/linux append vga=normal initrd=debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz --console=ttyS0,19200 earlyprint=serial,ttyS0,19200 after boot f0 you'll see various stuff beeing downloaded, the tty is a bit messed up, you need to type: install to get it running (not sure why the last bit is messed up, let me know if you fix it ;-) With kind regards, Wim. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
