On 06/27/2012 10:27 PM, Geert Stappers wrote: > What will break when there is no NFS server?
no rootfs will be found. > How early is that in the boot proces? early. in live-boot during initramfs stage. > When netbooting pxelinux.0 plus memdisk > plus > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current-live/amd64/usb-hdd/debian-live-6.0.4-amd64-rescue.img > which network card drivers will I have available? the ones that squeeze support, modulo those that require firmware from non-free. > What will then be my chances for a shell prompt? without the rootfs, you'll get a 'could not find rootfs' message and initramfs will abort to a busybox shell. > Which of the above described way might be the road to succes? if you insist on netbooting, then, either use fetch=, or setup an nfs server. hope that helps. -- Address: Daniel Baumann, Donnerbuehlweg 3, CH-3012 Bern Email: daniel.baum...@progress-technologies.net Internet: http://people.progress-technologies.net/~daniel.baumann/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4feb73c5.3090...@progress-technologies.net
