Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

Herbert Kaminski wrote: > Where did you get this from? As far as I know, there is no official > Sarge CD set. Are you certain about this? I used the jigdo files found at as a starting point and downloaded Sarge CDs 1 to 3 from the

Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:44:36 +0100, Ralph Seichter wrote: b) Using Apache to serve . >I copied Sarge CD 1 to this local directory. ^^ Where did you get this from? As far as I know, there is no official Sarge CD set. >Obviously, there is

Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

Joey Hess wrote: > That tarall has a 2.4.26 kernel in it, and so the installer is unale > to download disk drivers. I used the files in the debian-installer/2.6 subdirectory, because I supposed a 2.6 kernel there? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Yours sincerely Dipl. Inform. Ralph Seichter -- To UNSUB

Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

Herbert Kaminski wrote: > Just this weekend, I installed with no difficulties the then current > version of 'initrd.gz' and 'linux' from joeyh's location. Thanks, Herbert, it is working now. Well, sort of. ;-) I downloaded joeyh's files and tried to install Sarge in two scenarios: a) Using a region

Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

Ralph Seichter wrote: > Christian Perrier wrote: > > > I'm suspecting some more general problem as there has been at least > > another report with "hard disk not found" recently. > > Maybe I made a mistake with my choice of the Installation Kernel? I > have downloaded >

Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 12:02:16 +0100, Ralph Seichter wrote: >Christian Perrier wrote: > > > I'm suspecting some more general problem as there has been at least > > another report with "hard disk not found" recently. > >Maybe I made a mistake with my choice of the Installation Kernel? I >have downloa

Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

Christian Perrier wrote: > I'm suspecting some more general problem as there has been at least > another report with "hard disk not found" recently. Maybe I made a mistake with my choice of the Installation Kernel? I have downloaded

Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

Ralph Seichter wrote: > I used a Dell Latitude D800 for testing [...] I forgot to mention that I do this because the laptop's hardware is the best resemblance for the embedded server I could find among my available hardware, so I am really interested in getting the IDE hard disk support up and runn

Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

Quoting Ralph Seichter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Christian Perrier wrote: > > > Combining both will guve you what you want, I guess. > > Thanks, Christian. Serving the Installer Kernel via ISC DHCPD and > booting with this Kernel works now. I used a Dell Latitude D800 for > testing, because the serv

Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

Christian Perrier wrote: > Combining both will guve you what you want, I guess. Thanks, Christian. Serving the Installer Kernel via ISC DHCPD and booting with this Kernel works now. I used a Dell Latitude D800 for testing, because the server has not yet arrived, but unfortunately the IDE hard disk

Re: Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

> What would you recommend as suitable starting points for this kind > of network-based booting and system installation, and what is your > favourite AutoYaST-lookalike for Debian? http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s06.html http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch04s07.html

Booting and installing via Network (no floppy/CDROM available) - looking for pointers

Hello list members, I asked a similar question on 'debian-users' first, but judging from the turnout, I'd probably have not chosen the proper list. So here I go again: In the next days, I'll have to install an embedded server without floppy disk or CD ROM drive. However, the server can boot from on