| | 1 | = Booting Into an Environment to do your Installation |
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| | 3 | == USB Stick == |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | Come with a bootable USB stick with Debian Squeeze installed (as of 2010-05-25, all physical servers are being installed with squeeze and will be creating KVM virtual servers). |
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| | 7 | To create a USB installer for Debian Squeeze... |
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| | 9 | * Download [http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz boot.img.gz]. |
| | 10 | * Plug in USB stick (don't mount) - run dmesg | tail to figure out which device (e.g. sdb) |
| | 11 | * zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/DEVICE |
| | 12 | * mount /dev/DEVICE /mnt/ |
| | 13 | * Download [http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ netinst ISO] |
| | 14 | * Copy ISO image to /mnt/ |
| | 15 | * Download BNX drivers (optional): aptitude download firmware-bnx2x; aptitude download firmware-bnx2 |
| | 16 | * Copy the debs to /mnt/ |
| | 17 | * umount /mnt |
| | 18 | * Done! |
| | 19 | |
| | 20 | == PXE Boot == |
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| | 22 | Or, you can install using our [wiki:pxeboot_from_naomi naomi pxe install] or [wiki:pxe_boot_from_telehouse telehouse pxe install]. |
