Bug#570812: live-installer: support netboot
On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 10:39:47 +0000 Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@debian.org> wrote:
> 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.
oh, the debian version of live-installer doesn't have fetch-url
support either =( and for the time being, i'm not sure that i like the
fact that we don't verify any checksums or signatures of the squashfs.
Regards,
Dimitri.
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