Re: pxe boot over http rather than nfs

[Greg Fitzgerald <greg@gregf.org>]

On Fri Apr 29 12:07PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:24:24AM -0400, Greg Fitzgerald wrote:
> > On Fri Apr 29 10:45AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 09:44:17AM -0400, Greg Fitzgerald wrote:
> > > > I'm pxe booting the debian live cd. I currently serve
> > > > filesystem.squashfs over nfs, but I'm wondering if there is a way to
> > > > serve it over http like other distros offer?
> > > 
> > > Yes.
> > > 
> > > LABEL jessie-live
> > >     MENU LABEL Jessie Live
> > >     KERNEL debian/jessie/live/vmlinuz
> > >     INITRD debian/jessie/live/initrd.img
> > >     APPEND boot=live
> > > fetch=http://servername.tld/isos/debian-live-8.3.0-amd64-standard.iso 
> > > 
> > > for example.
> > > 
> > > Note that it does not, at this time, appear to work with https.
> > > 
> > > -dsr-
> > > 
> > 
> > Thanks. Does fetch have to pass the iso file or can it just point to the
> > squashfs file?
> 
> In theory, the squashfs should work. In practice, I haven't
> tried that.
> 
> -dsr-

Just a note for anyone paying attention passing
fetch=http://192.168.1.4/debian/jessie/amd64/live/filesystem.squashfs
does work.

--gregf