This is a description on how to do an installation of debian-edu using netboot.

I have a mirror http://apt.bzzware.org/debian-edu/ which is used for the purposes Some of you may wonder why I needed to build another mirror. Therefor I've documented this on ?DebianEdu/HowTo/NetbootInstall/WhyAnotherMirror

TODO: ?DebianEdu/HowTo/NetbootInstall/MirrorSetup

Some of you may wonder why I needed to build another installer (initrd.gz). Therefor I've documented this on ?DebianEdu/HowTo/NetbootInstall/WhyAnotherInstaller. Later (for lenny) maybe we should be finished with these things before Debian releases, and maybe we dont need to build our own installer anymore...

TODO: ?DebianEdu/HowTo/NetbootInstall/InstallerSetup

You might use the [http://apt.bzzware.org/debian-edu/netboot/debian-installer/i386/linux kernel] and [http://apt.bzzware.org/debian-edu/netboot/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz initrd] that I built

To test the instaler, I use qemu: 

/usr/bin/qemu -kernel /tftpboot/deinst/linux \
             -initrd /tftpboot/deinst/initrd.gz \
             -append "url=http://apt.bzzware.org/debian-edu/preseed/installer.dat" \
             -m 256 qemu.img

You need get the installer to fetch debian-edu-install-udeb (and debian-edu-profile-udeb). You can do that by adding "url=http://apt.bzzware.org/debian-edu/preseed/installer.dat" as boot-parameter, or you may run with DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low. Select Language/country/keyboard as usual, and if your network already is running a dhcp-server, you can use that. When the installer asks which mirror to use, then select "enter manually", and use apt.bzzware.org as installation mirror, and /debian-edu as subfolder (or whatever it's called). Using my preseed file will add the two automaticly. Then continue the installation, by selecting profile, reformatting disks and set password as usual. I'm not sure if the /var partition is large enough if you use automatic partitioning, at least my installation failed when using a 8 GB qemu-img.

To warn you: the mirror is not on the fastest line (although slightlyfaster than the old), so please use a proxy if you want to do more than one installation. Also, there is no auto-update on the mirror, so you wont get the newest and latest udebs and debs. The mirror was last updated on 2007-12-29. I've only tested a main-server profile, please report any problems you find to debian-edu @ l.d.o