Automate Linux Installations with Debian Pre-Seeding (Part 2)
Plugging a new PC into your network, going out for a healthy walk, and returning to a completed operating system installation is one of life's little pleasures. Remember, laziness is a virtue in network administration. Hamsters spend their lives running the same circles. Network administrators automate repetitive tasks.
In last week's suspenseful installment we learned how to generate a quick 'n' dirty preseed configuration file for replicating a Debian installation, and how to perform a minimal custom installation with a USB stick. Today we'll cover how to start a network installation with either a newfangled USB stick or an oldfangled CD-ROM, or an even more antique 3.5" diskette.
Network Installation Options
If your BIOS and NIC support netbooting, you don't need a boot disk. You do need a TFTP and DHCP server, which are easy to set up. See Chapter 4.6. "Preparing Files for TFTP Net Booting" of the Etch installation manual.
An option for machines that do not support netbooting is to use Etherboot on a floppy disk. This works fine, even though the Etherboot project's primary purpose is to enable diskless netbooting.
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