AutoInstall by Progeny!

An AutomatedInstallation tool for Debian.

Bought to you by CraigBox and NeilFenemor with help from JohnMcPherson and DanielLawson

autoinstall depends far too much on having a 1720Kb floppy disc around - so lets blow that away and use a CDRW.

Go get isolinux - part of the syslinux(1) suits - and get it to boot your kernel and initrd file.

I recommend using isolinux-debug.bin until you get things working right - apt-get(8) source syslinux, and then make isolinux-debug.

Create a cdrom/ directory somewhere. Create a cdrom/isolinux/, put isolinux{-debug}.bin in tere. Create an cdrom/isolinux/isolinux.cfg file with your lilo(8)-like boot options - you can just use '

timeout 100 default linux initrd=initrd.gz prompt 1

Copy your kernel (linux) and initrd (initrd.gz) into the cdrom/isolinux/ directory.

In the cdrom/ directory, issue

mkisofs -o ../bootcd.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table .

Now cdrecord that baby and watch things fly.

You'll need to change linuxrc inside your initrd, to get to mount your data off /dev/cdrom isntead of /dev/fd0u1720, unless you want to use a disk as well (whats the point, really?)