Re: [DNG] netbooting Dev1
dal: > > From: Dng [mailto:dng-boun...@lists.dyne.org] On Behalf Of k...@aspodata.se .. > > What do you need help with ? > This is about which media and how > can be used to netboot Devuan at the installation time. The media is ethernet, don't know if it is possible over wifi. Or is it so that you don't really want netbooting, instead you want to boot from some local media as in the "netboot cd" procedure ? > AFAICS the available installer is not capable of setting up networking > without the installation CD iso at hand. > This means it cannot proceed if netbooted. As you wrote you have a lot of similar installations, I suggest you make a model fs and copy (dd) it to the new disks. And then using a selfmade script that sets up the config. The easiest way is to use a sata docking station and do all the disks in one run. This is one example: https://www.deltaco.se/produkter/deltaco/h%C3%A5rddisktillbeh%C3%B6r/h%C3%A5rddiskdockning/MAP-GD35U3 > Did you succeed to install current Devuan with netboot? Not tried that. /// It is a while since I did this, so this info might be old. To netboot, you go into the "bios" and tell it to boot over pxe; perhaps it already has it as boot alternative. On the "server" side, you have a rarp/bootp/dhcp server and a tftp server, possible also a nfs server. The usual procedure is to boot a pxebootloader which then boots the kernel. Booth thoose is to be available on a tftp server. The kernel has to be specially prepared with mknbi. The kernel then mounts a nfs fs as root. Regards, /Karl Hammar ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] netbooting Dev1
Hello Karl, > From: Dng [mailto:dng-boun...@lists.dyne.org] On Behalf Of k...@aspodata.se > > > One is to make a very minimal, stable (reproducible in the sense > > of the same versions of the same package set) OS installation. > > Two is to install from the network with netboot (pxe/efi). > I have done some pxe booting and install in the past. > What do you need help with ? This is about which media and how can be used to netboot Devuan at the installation time. AFAICS the available installer is not capable of setting up networking without the installation CD iso at hand. This means it cannot proceed if netbooted. Did you succeed to install current Devuan with netboot? Thanks /D ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] netbooting Dev1
da1: > I am facing a two-faceted challenge: > > One is to make a very minimal, stable (reproducible in the sense > of the same versions of the same package set) OS installation. > Two is to install from the network with netboot (pxe/efi). ... I have done some pxe booting and install in the past. What do you need help with ? Regards, /Karl Hammar ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] netbooting Dev1
Dear all, I am facing a two-faceted challenge: One is to make a very minimal, stable (reproducible in the sense of the same versions of the same package set) OS installation. Two is to install from the network with netboot (pxe/efi). Debian has no installer which out-of-the-box could access the contents of an installation CD over the net, but the above is attainable by merging and tweaking the cd- and net-boot initrds, without actually building the installer from scratch. We tested this. Unfortunately Dev1 has no supported way (?) to be installed without pre-supplying a 300+ MB iso image to the target machine in some out-of-band way, like physically on a CD. An ideal solution would be to let the cd-installer contain the network-related tools inside the initramfs (like Debian netboot media does) and initialize the network before trying to access the data from the CD. Then it would be easy for us to replace the CD with secured remote data, which we have done with Debian. Otherwise, even a plain Debian-like netbootable installation media would do. Is there any practical way to reliably acquire or produce such a media, short of learning to be a Dev1 developer? A related question has been asked by someone else on https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=3197 without any positive answer. The outfall can decide the OS for hundreds of coming installations, which is why I am asking the question before giving up and taking the pain of systemd brought along by Debian. Regards /D ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
