Re: Preseed question

2010-06-18 Thread Carsten Agger
[Carsten Agger] > The problem is that this installation must be done in the field, with a > USB key and no access to any network during installation. And so far, > d-i insists on getting some connection, somehow, or tell the user it > didn't succeed. The installation should preferrably be complet

Re: Preseed question

2010-06-18 Thread Carsten Agger
[Petter Reinholdtsen] > Why is there no network available? This reminds me of an old bug in > anakonda on RHEL, where the DHCP request would time out before the > network card on Dell PowerEdge servers were able to finish the > handshake with a Cisco switch. It was fixed after a few releases, by

Re: Preseed question

2010-06-18 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Carsten Agger] > I'm creating a customized alternate CD which is supposed to run without > any user input in a setting with no network connection. > > Does anyone know how to achieve this? No matter what I do, it seems to > insist on stopping and telling the user that no network is available. W

Re: preseed question

2008-05-15 Thread Bjorn Meyer
Ok. Thank you. I will look into that. I am finally making some progress. Bjorn On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:03:01PM -0600, Bjorn Meyer wrote: > > I follow what you are saying, however, I am not understanding > > "fetch-me

Re: preseed question

2008-05-14 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 04:03:01PM -0600, Bjorn Meyer wrote: > I follow what you are saying, however, I am not understanding > "fetch-methods". What is this? I don't see this in the documentation. Please look at the source of the "preseed" package. As far as I can remember the code is pretty read

Re: preseed question

2008-05-13 Thread Geert Stappers
Op 13-05-2008 om 16:03 schreef Bjorn Meyer: > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You can try to modify the preseed package to add a new script in > > "fetch-methods" supporting NFS share. > > Thank you for the reply. > I follow what you are saying, how

Re: preseed question

2008-05-13 Thread Bjorn Meyer
Thank you for the reply. I follow what you are saying, however, I am not understanding "fetch-methods". What is this? I don't see this in the documentation. Bjorn On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Jérémy Bobbio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:48:38PM -0600, Bjorn Meyer wr

Re: preseed question

2008-05-13 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:48:38PM -0600, Bjorn Meyer wrote: > I am wondering if I am able to specify a location on an NFS share for the > preseed file during the netboot? I've notice only url and file are specified > in the docs. You can try to modify the preseed package to add a new script in "f