Forgot (at least) one critical bit of information: I'm working with the Sarge installer and the netboot image retrieved from:
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ Thanks! Steve On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 03:27:30PM -0500, Steve Feehan wrote: > I have been working on preseeding during network booting. I got a > network preseed file to work, but I'm having trouble putting the > preseed.cfg file in the initrd. > > First, I know this is probably not the correct way to modify the initrd, > but here is what I did: > > Uncompress the initrd: > > gunzip initrd.gz > > Mount on a loopback device: > > mount -o loop=/dev/loop0 initrd /mnt > > Copy the preseed file into the initrd file system: > > cp preseed.cfg /mnt/preseed.cfg > > Unmount: > > umount /mnt > > Compress the initrd: > > gzip initrd > > When I boot with this initrd I can drop to a shell and see that > /preseed.cfg is there. But the installer won't use the values in > the preseed file. I've tried with and without passing the kernel > parameter: > > preseed/file=/preseed.cfg > > But in either case, the preseed values are not used. > > Am I missing something obvious? Does the netboot initrd not support > preseed files inside the initrd? Do I need to build my own customized > netboot images? If there is documentation on this, please point me in > the right direction. And if I didn't explain the problem clearly enough, > please let me know and I'll try and clarify. > > Thanks for your time! > > -- > Steve Feehan -- Steve Feehan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
