On Saturday 01 November 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I have done is booting with a netboot kernel and initrd (having no > disk modules) and then accessing my local server where the debian dvd > is mounted. The dvd obviously misses ide module udeb packages. Maybe > because it has the ide modules in its initrd. Which doesn't help when > booted in a different way. > > This basically leads to the question: Is the debian dvd sufficient as > installation media remotely mounted on a local server? Should it be?
No. It sounds as if you've been creatively combining installation methods and thereby created a non-working system (and wasting our time). Why don't you just try following the netboot installation as it's intended? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
