Le lun 30/12/2002 à 22:16, Adam DiCarlo a écrit : > Is it just me, or isn't it rather a crippling problem that etherboot > requires a floppy or other bootable medium to do the etherbooting? I > guess however, since there is no OpenBoot on x86, that's just the > breaks.
I'm not sure I've understood everything > Tell me, why is it interesting/useful to floppy-boot into etherboot > rather than just floppy-booting from the rescue/root combo? Just the > issue of one floppy vs two? I told you I have bought a very small computer. I want to make it a firewall. I want it to be silent (no fans), not necessarily fast (300MHz, for a firewall it's enough) and very very small. So it will not have any floppy drive nor cdrom drive. It will only have : 1/ a smart card 2/ an onboard network adapter with PXE capability. So to put debian on it I need in either cases a tftp/bootp install. I wanted to prepare myself to do it. That's why with a floppy disk I simulate the smart card. But the best solution would be the PXE bios. Thus if for some reason I need to reinstall it one day it would be easy. But you are right. Someone whe has floppy disks has no need to tftp-install. I have myself done many of them either with floppy then network or cd-rom then network. Completly off-topic I think in the near future we will have to usb boot with different devices like pen-drive as I said before. This will be easy with a kernel + a root image on the drive along with something like isolinux. But that's an other story. Last minute ! My motherboard has a network adapter on it and I finally succeded in making it PXE boot. The process of installation has not begun because of a problem of tftp tsize. I will tomorrow install tftpd-hpa which has not this problem. I'm using for this my son's computer as tftp server mine is the client. It's late now I'll tell you tomorrow how this goes. -- nb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
