Hi Damien, using this script and the appropriate menue.lst (you must adapt the file menu.lst) everything runs perfect with my Hardware (Realtek 8129 Network Card) #Script to create a FAT- Floppy to start a tfpt/nfs based network installation mformat a: mmd boot mmd boot/grub mcopy /usr/lib/grub/stage1 a:boot/grub/ mcopy /usr/lib/grub/stage2.netboot a:boot/grub/stage2 mcopy menu.lst a:boot/grub/ mcopy autoinst.xml a: echo "Building GrubFloppy FAT" grub <<** root (fd0) setup (fd0) quit ** menu.lst: ------------------ color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 framebuffer 1 title autoinstall-ip ifconfig --address=192.168.0.230 --server=192.168.0.59 root (nd) kernel (nd)/linux install=nfs://192.168.0.59/home/suse82/ ip=192.168.0.230 netmask=255.255.255.0 initrd (nd)/initrd ------------------- (nd) means "netdisk", what you have looked for! Copy all 5 CDs from 8.2 onto the server (here .59) in the directory /home/suse82 Depending of the contents of autoinst.xml I can pull out the floppy after autoinst.xml has been read in from yast2 and everthing will be installed from the server with one floppy. Regards, Kurt damien.selles@eu.effem.com schrieb:

Hi all,

I m trying to perform yast autoinstallation via nfs .. but booting on a SINGLE floppy... (mandatory requierments)

What should I add to the bootdisk so that it would be able to get it initial ramdisk via nfs?

Is there a way to get initrd from the network?

If not, has anybody ever succeed in stripping initrd down to 350 ko and add it to the bootdisk?

Has anybody ever experienced performing autoinstallation with only one floppy and the network?

moreover, despite different readings i had, i m not sure to be clear on the interactions between the initrd ramdisk and the root ramdisk could anybody give me some explanations?

Thanks in advance,

--------------------------------------------------------------- Damien Selles