Grant Grundler wrote:
> Netboot install uses a different initrd than the regular install?

If you define "regular" as "from CD", then yes.

> To do a basic install, one needs to load the drivers that control storage. 
> Given the size problems with the initrd, I find it hard to believe
> that sym2 driver wouldn't be included.

d-i initrds contain the bare minimum of software required to access a
repository and retrieve the rest of d-i.

> > Kernel command line: 
> > preseed/url=http://chicken/~joey/d-i/preseed/test-net.cfg r
> > oot=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=8734 console=ttyS0 TERM=vt102 palo_kernel=0/linux
> 
> Is this ramisk size big enough?
> Wasn't the reccomendation to use 32MB?

That's the actual ramdisk size, calculated based on the size of the initrd.

> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 380k freed
> > Linux Tulip driver version 1.1.13 (December 15, 2004)
> > ~ # 
> 
> Can you add "tulip_debug=4" to the "modprobe tulip" command?

Unfortunatly "modprobe tulip tulip_debug=4" produces nothing additional
in dmesg.

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