Geert Stappers wrote:
Mmm, I begin to understand why the multi-config udebs were created.
However, I think this problem^Wchallenche is something that can not
solved only by writing program code.
I would go talk to the administrator of the registration server.
and ask for a directory on the that
Frans Pop wrote:
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 14:09, Michael S. Peek wrote:
If I set up a DHCP server using IPCop, is there a way to I tell the
Debian installer to listen to my DHCP server instead of the broken
Windows DHCP server? If I can figure that out then I can boot and
install over the
Chris Bell wrote:
On Wed 18 Apr, Michael S. Peek wrote:
If I set up a DHCP server using IPCop, is there a way to I tell the
Debian installer to listen to my DHCP server instead of the broken
Windows DHCP server? If I can figure that out then I can boot and
install over the network
Chris Bell wrote:
Maybe I just don't understand DHCP as much as I should, but if my
organization already has a DHCP server (that will provide me an
incorrect IP address of 10.x.x.x), and I set up my own DHCP server, then
won't that cause race conditions with the install client? At least,
I've
Stephen Frazier wrote:
It would appear that Michael Peek works in an environment like mine.
Both windows and Debian machines on the same network. The DHCP server
belongs to the windows support people and they don't know how to set
it up for both windows and Debian.
Bingo!
What I have done is
Chris Bell wrote:
On Mon 16 Apr, Michael S Peek wrote:
Geert Stappers wrote:
The Etch version has "Auto mode"
See http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/apbs02.html.en#preseed-auto
for the details.
That's very slick, and it may indeed solve my probl
Geert Stappers wrote:
The Etch version has "Auto mode"
See http://www.nl.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/apbs02.html.en#preseed-auto
for the details.
That's very slick, and it may indeed solve my problem, but I'm not
convinced that this will work for me:
This relies on there being a DHC
Geert Stappers wrote:
First:
The idea of promoting of software (enhancements) does intrique me.
This posting is mostly about "What is so good about these udebs?"
Reading the announce of the multi-netcfg and multi-partman packages,
I couldn't see where the added value is, nor didn't see where
t
Hi guys,
Many moons ago I wrote a few small udebs that I found useful. I offered
them to the community, but at the time the consensus was that it was too
close to the release of Etch and too many people were too busy to deal
with it. But at the same time, there seemed to be a few that though
Package: hw-detect, disk-detect, ethdetect
Version: 1.46
Wishlist: It would be nice if disk-detect and ethdetect would, in expert
mode, prompt the user for a list of modules to attempt to load, and
allow the user to un/select modules by hand (or via preseed).
(This would, at least, allow me t
David Härdeman wrote:
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 12:46:23PM -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote:
Either I've done something stupid again or partman-auto isn't working
in the latest daily build of etch.
What am I missing?
The preseeding strings for partman-auto changed some weeks ago.
Michael S. Peek wrote:
Hello again gurus,
I'm attempting to update a couple of small udebs to work under etch
and I've run into a snag. For some reason I seem to be killing
/sbin/debian-installer with my udebs and I don't know what's causing it.
Aha! Got it
Hello again gurus,
I'm attempting to update a couple of small udebs to work under etch and
I've run into a snag. For some reason I seem to be killing
/sbin/debian-installer with my udebs and I don't know what's causing it.
As an example, here's one of the udebs in question: multi-netcfg. It
Michael S. Peek wrote:
Hello gurus,
I had my etch installation all set up with preseeding so that it
wouldn't ask me a single thing -- it would just do it. Very nice if
you have lots of machines to install. But something's changed in the
last few revisions, and now I can't
Hello gurus,
I had my etch installation all set up with preseeding so that it
wouldn't ask me a single thing -- it would just do it. Very nice if you
have lots of machines to install. But something's changed in the last
few revisions, and now I can't seem to figure out how to make that
darn
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 21:18, Michael S. Peek wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
> Installation works fine, but unable to mount the root filesystem on
> reboot. Checking /proc/cmdline shows "root=/dev/sda1 ro", which is
> correct, but no /dev/sda1 exists (/dev/sda exists
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD
Image version:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso
Downloaded on 9/20/06
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:25:27 -0400
Machine: Custom machine w/ SuperMicro X6DHE-XG2 (Intel E75
Hi guys,
My name is Michael Peek, and I've never contributed a darned thing...
But I'd like to change that. I've written a couple of small udebs that
I find useful. I'm wondering if they would be useful to anyone else.
If you're like me, and I know I am, then you work someplace where you
Hello again gurus,
I'm working on an automated installation and thought I would give the
ssh access method a whirl with apt-get for installing my custom
packages. My problem is that I can't seem to get the options that I
need passed to ssh's command line by apt.
The man page for apt-get hin
Hello gurus,
I want to make sure that I understand before I start screwing around with
things too much:
1) With the Sarge installer, it is currently not possible to preseed partman
recipes for multiple disks, right? You can preseed partitioning for a single
disk, but if you have a second di
Hello guys,
I'm trying to write my own udeb. I have a prototype that loads and runs, but
it's menu entry in the debian installer is a blank line. I don't suppose
that's really all that important, since my package is designed to allow me to
do things with preseed files that automate installat
Frans Pop wrote:
On Friday 10 March 2006 17:27, Michael S. Peek wrote:
Comments/Problems:
Preseeded automatic installation fails to install a kernel.
OK. So this is with the new installer. Let's close your previous report.
So now, please provide the information I asked for: the rel
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD (using 2.6 kernel)
Image version: debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso
Downloaded from:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/iso-cd/
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:08:34 -0500
Machine: Dell Precision 470n
Processor: Inte
Package: installation-reports
Boot method: CD (using 2.6 kernel and /install/2.6/initrd.gz ramdisk image)
Image version: debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso
Downloaded from:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/etch_d-i/beta1/i386/iso
-cd/
Download date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 13:08:34 -05
Hello Guys,
I'm installing w/ debian-testing-i386-businesscard.iso. I can go through it by
hand and everything works okay. But if I try to preseed grub, then after
rebooting the mackine, grub comes up with a command line instead of a list of
kernels and a timeout before booting the first ker
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