[clug] Debian - mirror selection in preseed.cfg not working?

[Lincoln Smith]

On 08/08/11 22:42, Adam Baxter wrote:
> Got it.
> TFTP loading of the preseed.cfg doesn't work - http does.
> Then, to use http I need a ramdisk. Sorted.

IIRC (having set this up a little while ago) TFTP of preseed.cfg should 
work with the squeeze netboot image (well it was working for me!) but 
isn't supported in the etch and earlier images. I was using the squeeze 
netboot image over PXE to get the tftp support, and then forcing the 
install back to etch via preseed.cfg.

> Final problem is you've got a different version of syslinux/pxelinux
> to me - yours allows linebreaks with \, mine doesn't and says that it
> will be implemented in the future.
>
> Thanks for that.
>
> --Adam

Lincoln