Package: debian-installer Version: lenny I've been trying to get a reliable fully automatic netboot install. The default value of netcfg/dhcp_timeout is rather too short for this kind of application so I decided to increase it to 150.
Experimentation shows that values of greater than around 60 are ineffective. They affect the progress indication (which is based on % of the specified timeout) but after about 60s it fails anyway (perhaps with the progress indicator nowhere near 100%). I've done tests with values of (unset), 5, 60, 150, and 500, timing the results against a wall clock, and the effect seems to be consistent with an upper effective value of a little more than 60s. I conjecture that there are two parallel timeout mechanisms, one of which is controlled by netcfg/dhcp_timeout, but the other of which is fixed at 60 (or perhaps 65s - my timings are by eye so I'm not certain of the exact value). I don't have a record of the versions I downloaded but here are the MD5 checksums: b3d72aad69031b81d0350d609d71829c /tftpboot/pxe/debian-installer/i386/linux 4937c5134cd5c55bee2e696a29638bb1 /tftpboot/pxe/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz If it would help to try a new version please let me know. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
