Help with a touchless, netbooted, preseeded installation of squeeze on lots of plugs

2012-05-16 Thread Dan Tomlinson
here and any solutions may require me to modify d-i source and build my own installer - this is fine. I just thought I would ask the developers before I dived into trying to hack this myself. Many thanks in advance, Dan Tomlinson PS: I may have to commission hundreds of these pl

Re: (SOLVED) Help with a touchless, netbooted, preseeded installation of squeeze on lots of plugs

2012-05-17 Thread Dan Tomlinson
On 16/05/2012 17:17, Dan Tomlinson wrote: Hi all, I am trying to do something relatively advanced with the debian-installer netboot and preseed. I have been charged with the commissioning of a large number of Dreamplug armel machines with a Debian squeeze installation and I am attempting to get

Re: Help with a touchless, netbooted, preseeded installation of squeeze on lots of plugs

2012-05-17 Thread Dan Tomlinson
On 16/05/2012 19:39, Philip Hands wrote: This is odd -- I preseed OpenRD systems, and don't seem to have this problem. Are you installing the uboot-mkimage package? It seems that linux-image-2.6.32-5-kirkwood calls mkimage in its postinst, so if you make sure your kernel does the same thing, a