On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Roger Kirkman wrote: > I am attempting to use kick-start to load 7.2 on a number of systems > with 32mb memory. Previously I have successfully used kick-start to load > 7.1, with no problem. The reason for 7.2 is to include drivers for the > Realtech NIC. The package configuration includes Web Server only. The > 7.2 works up to a point were a screen displays that due to low memory > the system must create the swap file now. Accepting this request > kick-start continues and completes the install. Any suggestions. > Roger I've been writing a rather crude installer for Debian that should do the job in about five minutes. Though written for Debian, it will install just about anything, maybe including a BSD without much effort. It boots off an etherboot floppy created with a file I got from www.rom-o-matic.org (I think the names right, looks odd now), downloads a standard kernel and initrd lightly massaged by mknbi, mounts the reall installer using nfs, partitions the drive by piping commands into fdisks, formats and mounts the filesystem, and untars a tarball onto the system. It then does some Debian-specific stuff. It's all written in a few fairly small shell scripts. If you want to chat more about it, my preferred forum is the list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb which is also frequented by some Rule folk. -- Please, reply only to the list.
