Debian squeeze serial console install

You're probably still signaling at baud yet transmitting data at bps. Dan Shoop. Computer Scientist. Technical Services.

USTS Offices Previous message View by thread View by date Next message. Could not load tags. Latest commit. Git stats 40 commits. Failed to load latest commit information. View code. Press F10 or F12 hoping this does not interfere with your running environment. If the Debian official installer does not suit you, please use our script to create an unofficial Debian installer with serial console: Supported computers No need for a complex BIOS or IPMI to have serial console redirection.

Debian architectures Available in two architectures: amd64 64 bit architecture i 32 bit architecture Builds an amd64 installer by defaut. Debian flavors Built for Debian latest release with security fixes: Debian 9. Normally this should be the x x country where you live. You can now select your preference from x x the locales available for the selected language.

The locale that will x x be used is listed in the second column. With guided partitioning you will still have a chance later x x to review and customise the results. This x x information influences decisions such as which packages should go on x x the first distribution CD.

You can force a PXE boot, though, which is explained later. Save and exit: Select Save Settings to pop up the save dialog, and dismiss it. The host reboots.

Set up a TFTP server somewhere. Set up a DHCP server somewhere. Doesn't have to be the same physical server as TFTP. Download netboot. Modify the pxelinux config in pxelinux. Add bnx2 firmware to the initrd image as explained here. Connect and share knowledge within a single location that is structured and easy to search. In the embedded environment I have:. I have managed to build a custom Linux 3. However, to move from here to an actual installation seems to be problematic.

I am unable to convince debian-installer to be built using my custom kernel. My current theory is a double bootstrap process where I first bootstrap an installation into a usb-drive and then boot that and then bootstrap an installation into the SATA drive on the system? Any better suggestions? I managed to solve my problem with debootstrap, here is a quick run-down of the process I followed.

At this stage I could boot the usb on my target embedded system and repeat the whole process again to install debian on the SATA drive. Obviously I needed to install things like debootstrap on the usb drive first to facilitate this but that was minor.

You can activate the network console of the Debian Installer via preseeding. The Installation Guide actually contains the following example :. If you want to use a password, uncomment the other two settings. Of course, you also have to preseed all previous questions, because you have no interface to answer them before the network console is started up by the above settings.