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 ​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 ​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 naomi pxe install or telehouse pxe install.