retitle 470061 network install starting from USB stop Op 08-03-2008 om 23:08 schreef oc-spam66: > Hello, > > I would like to install a debian (network install) starting with a USB key. > The file : http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst > gives a link to : > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/ > > From reading the MANIFEST file, I guess I then have to go in the 'hd-media' > directory and I download : > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz > > I flash the USB key and boot the target computer with it. The > installation runs and asks for and ISO image... apparently he did not > understand that I want a NETWORK install ! I don't have an ISO image. > > So I go in the next menu where I can ask to detect the network > hardware. The installer says he can not detect my ethernet card (even > though this is a working Realtek 8139 rev 10) > > So, I did not manage to do the network install... > Could you please tell how to make it work ?
For a network install starting from USB one has to do something like: * copy the kernel to the USB stick * copy the network install initial RAM disk ( "initrd" ) to the USB stick * Install and activate a boot loader on the USB stick * boot computer from USB stick > (this gives me the strange feeling that the good things fade... I am > pretty sure that I managed such a USB/netinstall one year ago on the > same computer ...) Use this bugreport for documenting it this time... Cheers Geert Stappers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
