Op 14-01-2008 om 13:10 schreef Folkert van Heusden: (follow-up upon non BTS posting)
> > Please elaborate that. > > Tell which device is the booting device ( is it the USB stick? ) > > What kind of data should be on the other device? > > usb stick / compact flash card (e.g. ide to compact flash converter) > will contain only the kernel and initrd so that it can be read-only > > nfs will contain all the rest (/ and all files beneath) See below. > > > That way one can also boot non-pxe systems without any local disk. > > If those systems can boot from a USB device, > > then there are (at least) two options: > > * Install from hdmedia ( > > > > http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/ > > ) > > What's that? It's not a .deb package? Nope, no .deb package. You can use .deb packages _after_ installation. More information about hd-media is at http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/apas02.html.en#howto-getting-images-usb it starts with: | It's also possible to install from removable USB storage devices. Please update this bugreport with information if the knowledge about hd-media still makes this wishlist BR relevant. > > * Boot gPXE ( http://www.etherboot.org ) > > Problem with that one is that it requires a dhcp-server and a tftp > server. So it won't work in an environment with subnets and were one is > not allowed to put an other dhcp server in the network. True. (Workarounds for it, are beyond the scope of this BugReport) Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]