Anders --
...and then Anders Karlsson said...
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% Afternoon,
Hi again!
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% > % > I have a tricky machine -- no CD, no video, no keyboard, no floppy -- on
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% >
% > Hmmm... That's not a bad idea. I'll have to check to see if the quad
% > card that it has can do a network boot, but that might get me there.
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% When you boot the machine, does it say anything about Intel PXE
What screen? :-)
% something or another on the screen? If it does, you should be able to
% network boot. Most network cards today can do this.
Sounds good.
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% > Has SuSE yet gotten their equivalent of kickstart going?
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% I think that with SLPro 8.2 there is a way of installing over the
% network. I have not investigated this, but I seem to recall it exists.
Oooh; that sounds nice.
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% > OK. And initrd is just the initial ram disk, which should be an ext2
% > image, right?
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% The initrd is usually a gzipped image of a ext2 or minix filesystem.
Right.
% Normal today is ext2. Gunzip the image, loopmount it somewhere and have
% a poke around what it does. Look for the linuxrc file as that should be
% the first thing that gets run.
Ah. Thanks!
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% Rgds,
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% --
% Anders Karlsson