On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 11:26:24AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:01:46PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote:
>
> | I have tried to do that but was unsuccessful. Could you describe how
> | you got it working (what files you used to boot with, if you had to
> | make a custom initrd, and the relevant section of dhcpd.conf).
>
> I used the "net.gz" initrd from the iso I downloaded and created a netboot
> image with the command below:
>
> mknbi-linux --output=sarge-installer.img /mnt/iso/install/vmlinuz
> /mnt/iso/install/net.gz --append='vga=normal ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/rd/0
> init=/linuxrc devfs=mount,dall' --rootmode=rw
>
> The --append= came from the command in boot.bat on the CD - I wasn't
> aware of the page on the wiki.
>
> In dhcpd.conf:
>
> host merlin {
> hardware ethernet 00:E0:4C:AC:00:79;
> fixed-address merlin.home;
> filename "/deb/sarge-installer.img";
> }This just works! Thanks! (I didn't bother to look in boot.bat) Now, should we provide a sarge-installer.img (for etherboot) on the CD:s? -- Hans Ekbrand (http://sociologi.cjb.net) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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