Bug#570812: live-installer: support netboot
Hi,
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:55:45 +0100 Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: live-installer
>
> currently, only installation from cdrom or hd-media is working.
>
> it would be nice to support netboot too. the problem is that during
> netboot, one will need to access the filesystem.squashfs, e.g. through a
> networks share or something like that.
>
I've encountered exactly this problem. Instead of a network share, I
made the assumption that the mirror one is installing against, is in
actual fact a full export of the live ISO image. And thus, I change
the logic (with a hint from Colin) to iterate and search for
filesystem.squashfs twice: once with /cdrom/ prefix, and the second
time with $mirror.
The patch is here:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/230268700/live-installer_46ubuntu1_46ubuntu2.diff.gz
And I shall rework it for debian, due to things that are different
between ubuntu and debian.
Regards,
Dimitri.
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