On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:54:11AM -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Barry Warsaw <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > I would just say that, at least the last time I tried to do a netboot, it > > wasn't easy. The documentation was difficult to find, somewhat out of date, > > and didn't describe exactly what and where to download the necessary bits > > and > > pieces. > > > > It's been a little while so I don't remember the details, but maybe part of > > the task of dropping the alt CDs should include reviewing the available > > documentation for netboot and mini ISO for up-to-dated-ness. > > Yes, absolutely. > > I played with this a bit, and it's actually not too difficult to do > from just any Ubuntu desktop, provided you have the ISO image for what > you want to provide. This is one place where having dnsmasq installed > on all desktops is really useful ;) > > I'll take a look at the docs and at least add the few commands I came > up with to setup a netboot server, it's a matter of three or four > commands, and IIRC no extra packages to install from a brand new > desktop install.
Let's be clear that using the "netboot" mini.iso doesn't require setting up a netboot server; you just need to download the image you want from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/ and burn it to a CD / write it to a USB stick as normal. For refugees from the alternate CD, this is likely to be a more comfortable approach than setting up a netboot server. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
