On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:57:54 +0000 Greg Sutcliffe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 20 November 2011 18:28, Dieter Plaetinck <[email protected]> wrote: > > AFAIK archiso images boot fine over pxe. (archboot is not official) > > archboot doesn't even use aif, but archiso does, and it accepts a 'script' > > boot parameter, > > which can do whatever you want, such as starting an aif automatic install. > > at least, that's how I remember things are. I didn't ever try this myself > > but IIRC other people have. > > > > Dieter > > Thanks for the fast reply Dieter. I was trying to avoid passing an > entire iso over TFTP - my internal virtual network takes long enough > just to pass the 80Mb initrd from archboot. I'll test it anyway (the > netinst iso is only double that, not too bad), just so I've got a > handle on how it works - thanks for the tip. maybe there's a better way (like transmit something minimal, mount / over nfs or whatever), but i'm not familiar enough with archiso. > > Are there plans to integrate archboot and the main iso images (or aif) > in some way? nope
