Re: netbooting i386 sysinst

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 07:14:48PM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
> On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 06:24:28PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 02:50:50PM +0100, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 04:48:57AM +0000, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Is it still possible to netboot an i386 INSTALL_LARGE-like kernel
> > > > in recent -current?
> > > 
> > > Yes, although we don't provide it. I'm updating pxeboot to always use
> > > boot.cfg. For an install it can pull miniroot.kmod from the server.
> > 
> > What about those of us not using pxeboot ?
> 
> You mean netboot? The changes should apply to it easily but I have no way of
> testing them.

I was specifically thinking about grub. There are cases where we don't have
much control over the environnement.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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