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| author | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2006-01-09 10:30:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> | 2006-01-09 10:30:37 +0000 |
| commit | 4b2c29c3779f438c0705a2b3cc9ab2700fac585d (patch) | |
| tree | b721091894e2e2d0685840c2f60721f4e7c12351 /en/appendix | |
| parent | a164156d887e4eedf5261f74761ebae6bd01de79 (diff) | |
| download | installation-guide-4b2c29c3779f438c0705a2b3cc9ab2700fac585d.zip | |
* Document how to pick a particular interface with
netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a
preseed file.
Diffstat (limited to 'en/appendix')
| -rw-r--r-- | en/appendix/preseed.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/en/appendix/preseed.xml b/en/appendix/preseed.xml index 80bd3c201..1980062c2 100644 --- a/en/appendix/preseed.xml +++ b/en/appendix/preseed.xml @@ -489,13 +489,20 @@ booting from CD or USB stick. If you are loading preseed files from the network, you can pass network config parameters in using kernel boot parameters. -</para> +</para><para> + +If you need to pick a particular interface when netbooting before loading +a preseed file from the network, use a boot parameter such as +<userinput>netcfg/choose_interface=<replaceable>eth1</replaceable></userinput>. <informalexample role="example"><screen> # netcfg will choose an interface that has link if possible. This makes it # skip displaying a list if there is more than one interface. d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto +# To pick a particular interface instead: +#d-i netcfg/choose_interface select eth1 + # If you have a slow dhcp server and the installer times out waiting for # it, this might be useful. #d-i netcfg/dhcp_timeout string 60 |