= Booting Into an Environment to do your Installation

== USB Stick ==

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). 

To create a USB installer for Debian Squeeze...

 * Download [http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz boot.img.gz].
 * Plug in USB stick (don't mount) - run dmesg | tail to figure out which device (e.g. sdb)
 * zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/DEVICE
 * mount /dev/DEVICE /mnt/
 * Download [http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ netinst ISO]
 * Copy ISO image to /mnt/
 * Download BNX drivers (optional): aptitude download firmware-bnx2x; aptitude download firmware-bnx2
 * Copy the debs to /mnt/
 * umount /mnt
 * Done!

== PXE Boot ==

Or, you can install using our [wiki:pxeboot_from_naomi naomi pxe install] or [wiki:pxe_boot_from_telehouse telehouse pxe install].