Documentation for netboot [was Re: Proposal to drop Ubuntu alternate CDs for 12.10]

[Serge Hallyn]

Cool - what I use right now is pretty much

https://s3hh.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/simple-netboot-setup/

It's not as short and sweet as what I hope you'll end up with :)  but once
it's setup (as it is for me on 2 or 3 laptops) I just get a new mini iso

(
################################
serge at amd1:~$ cat bin/getminiiso 
#!/bin/sh

release=$1
f=${release}-mini.iso
if [ -f $f ]; then
	echo "$f exists"
fi

wget -O $f http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/${release}/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso
################################
)

mount that to /mnt, rsync it to /var/lib/tftpboot/$release, copy the preseed
file back into there, and now the other laptop can just boot+install from it.

-serge

Quoting Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (mathieu.tl at gmail.com):
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Barry Warsaw <barry at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > I would just say that, at least the last time I tried to do a netboot, it
> > wasn't easy.  The documentation was difficult to find, somewhat out of date,
> > and didn't describe exactly what and where to download the necessary bits and
> > pieces.
> >
> > It's been a little while so I don't remember the details, but maybe part of
> > the task of dropping the alt CDs should include reviewing the available
> > documentation for netboot and mini ISO for up-to-dated-ness.
> 
> Yes, absolutely.
> 
> I played with this a bit, and it's actually not too difficult to do
> from just any Ubuntu desktop, provided you have the ISO image for what
> you want to provide. This is one place where having dnsmasq installed
> on all desktops is really useful ;)
> 
> I'll take a look at the docs and at least add the few commands I came
> up with to setup a netboot server, it's a matter of three or four
> commands, and IIRC no extra packages to install from a brand new
> desktop install.
> 
> Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu.tl at gmail.com>
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