On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 04:17:14PM +0100, Sascha Vogt enlightened us: > Matt Hyclak schrieb: > > On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 01:52:11PM +0100, Sascha Vogt enlightened us: > > > >> Juan Jose Pablos schrieb: > >> > >>> Michael De Groote escribió: > >>> > >>>> most of the time you can get the kernel version with "uname -a" i think > >>>> but not sure of the kernel used by unattended though :) > >>>> > >>>> > >>> for 4.7 is 2.6.23.11 > >>> > >> Yes, but what is it? > >> > >> A SYSLINUX Kernel > >> An unattended Kernel based on syslinux > >> An unattended kernel > >> > >> (After PXE - Linuxboot, when the booted linux cant find a NIC and drops > >> to bash.) > >> > >> I'd just want to know into which sources I'd have to dig first to get > >> that thing going. > >> > >> Sorry, but you can see the knots in my brain... > >> > >> > > > > It is the linux kernel that you have to change. Did you look into the > > mailing list archives as I suggested? > > > > SYSLINUX is merely a boot loader. It is used unmodified by unattended. > > > > The unattended "linuxboot" image is a linux kernel and some applications and > > scripts to start the installation. The software used is also largely > > unmodified. > > > > Find the post from the last couple of days from this list or maybe > > unattended-devel which listed step-by-step how to replace the e1000 drivers > > in the linuxboot image. > > > > Matt > > > > > Yep, found that one. > > So I will (clean-)install a Debian Distro on a new box, get the Kernel-, > unattended- and syslinux-snapshots, do a testrun by compiling > erverything. If it works, I will apply the changes as suggested in > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20080201132951.GA5579%40business.aau.dk&forum_name=unattended-info > > and try that. > > Anything wrong with that plan? I just dont trust SuSE 10.0 on my > day-to-day Workstation enough to try it there. It has to do it's job on > monday ;-). >
You really should only need the unattended source (either from CVS or the release) for linuxboot. Running make download will get the linux kernel source (and everything else, for that matter), and syslinux is already included. Otherwise it sounds like a fine plan. Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
