Hi. On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 07:52:32AM +0200, john doe wrote: > > Looks like moving debian-installer/pxelinux.cfg to the root of the tftp > > directory, get me to the Debian installer prompt where I can choose to > > install/resque Debian. > > > > It looks also like symlink created on Windows with the 'mklink' command > > are not handle properly by Qemu's tftp. > > > > I'll give also a shot to your above 'default' file but for now, it is > > reading time! :) > > > > On Windows the file ldlinux.c32 needs to be in the tftp root directory, > if it is a symlink created with the 'mklink' cmd it won't work and I > don't understand why, if anyone has any thoughts on this? > As far as I can tell, this is related to Windows and syslinux because it > works on Debian with ldlinux.c32 being a symlink.
Cannot comment on that. > My next step is to automatically fetch the preseed file to do an > automatic installation of Debian, I would like to use the local tftp > server in Qemu but I'm not finding a way to do that, if I happend one of > the following it fails: > > url=tftp://10.0.2.2/preseed.cfg > url=tftp://preseed.cfg > > How can I use the local tftp server of qemu to fetch the preseedfile? Put in into pxelinux.cfg/default file, into "append" clause. Something like that: kernel linux append initrd=initrd.gz url=tftp://10.0.2.2/preseed.cfg Reco
