On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:35:07PM +0000, Lee Mitchell wrote: > Hi folks, > Hope this is the right place to ask... > > I've been playing around with a Mini ITX machine (VIA M10000) and > previously had woody installed and configured to boot using PXE and tftp > with its root filesystem mounted via NFS from another machine. > > However, I get bored easilly, so decided to have a play with sarge and > its new wizzo installer :-) > > My question is, where do i tell the install process that i want to use a > root filesystem that is mounted from NFS ? > > There are no disks whatsoever in this machine, and the install proces > doesn't seem too keen on letting me install it on anything other than a > local disk. > > I've tried mounting the exported filesystem manually in a console but > the version of mount doesn't appear to support nfs (maybe i'm just doing > something stupid here). > > I'm using the netboot images from here :- > > http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/images/daily/netboot/ > > > > Any help would be much appreciated, even if its just a simple "sorry not > supported yet message" cos at the moment i'm just convinced i'm doing > something dumb !
Hey, that allows me to make some noise :-) nfsroot is AFAIK a kernel compile option. check the config of the install kernel. > > Up to the mounting a filesystem bit though, i'm impressed with the new > installer. It detects my not so common hardware fine and configures the > network ok, so well done folks, looks like its gonna be great when done ! > > Cheers > > Lee Mitchell > Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
