Debian-Installer: boot via etherboot
Howto boot debian-installer-floppies over network for etherboot machines.
WARNING: here you can test the "first" diskette. This information mostly usefull only for people who work the floppy and/or CDROM images.
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These steps need to be done:
- server side setup.
- Setup etherboot on client.
- Tag the boot-floppy.
- Verify.
Server setup
To setup dhcp do the following steps:
- Install dhcp-server.
- Backup dhcpd.conf
- use an dhcp.conf like the following:
# dhcpd.conf for debian-installer # global settings allow booting; allow bootp; default-lease-time 600; max-lease-time 7200; option domain-name-servers yournameserver; option domain-name "yourdomain"; use-host-decl-names on; subnet 192.168.11.0 netmask 255.255.255.0