Re: [Etherboot-developers] List of NICs by popularity

[Anselm M. H. <an...@ho...>]

Hello Alastair,

> I'm a debian developer working on the next-generation Debian Installer.

While that is talked about...

> For people still using floppies + net to install from, we need to make
> all the NIC driver modules for Linux available on floppies - this will
> take several floppies, and wish to prioritise them according to how
> popular each of the NICs are.

Could you support debian be installed from an etherboot NBI?
Meaning... you setup a tftp/dhcp server on one debian server box and
then - putting one rom-o-matic floppy into a client - can install from
a netbooted kernel and a ftp.*.debian.org server? I think it's possible
with some manual tweeking right now, but why not support right out of
the box?

Best regards,
 Anselm Martin Hoffmeister
 Stockholm Projekt Computer-Service
 <an...@ho...>