Re: Debian Live web-booting

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@gmail.com>]

On 21 October 2014 13:57, Hervé Werner <dud225@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> By leveraging iPXE capabilities I'm currently aiming to build a PXE setup that directly boots off officials repositories. In you never saw what you may do with iPXE, please have a look at http://boot.salstar.sk. That's really great.
>
> Web-booting Debian Live is quite easy as all the needed files are issued : http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/stable+nonfree/amd64/webboot/. Please just add Debian Jessie & Sid and it'll be absolutely perfect ;)
>
> However I'm getting trouble with distros derived from Debian like GParted, etc... because they usually don't publish the 3 needed files (Linux kernel, initrd & root fs) but only a live ISO. But thanks to the great syslinux project we've got an alternative way : memdisk. Unfortunately

Hello,

it is possible to mount the iso image directly in place of the squashfs image.

You will have to extract the kernel image and initramfs by other means, however.

I don't think syslinux or iPXE can extract the kernel and initramfs
image from an iso image.

Thanks

Michal