Package: installation-reports This is a general wishlist item for the installer, but I wasn't sure what package to file this against. Please reroute it as needed.
Most of the laptops that I install debian on are single-spindle sub-notebooks. This generally requires netbooting, as not all of them support boot off various USB devices (memory stick, external cdrom, etc). It would be very helpful to have an installation method that did nothing but init the network hardware and start up a bootp server to serve itself over the network. Then I could very easily kick off the installation via PXE from any desktop/two-spindle laptop that I had available by plugging them both into a hub. Desired behavior: * Get one desktop machine. Insert debian install CD. * Reboot desktop. Select "install-server" installation method. * Desktop boots linux and starts up a dhcp + tftp server. * Get target machine. Boot off PXE. * Desktop assigns IP to target, sends the kernel and ramdisk via tftp. * Install normally on the target machine. Obviously it is possible to do this manually, but adding this capability to the installer would make life much easier. (eg: you don't even need an existing linux machine, you could borrow any desktop to use as a no-touch installation server) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
