[arch-general] [*] Re: Building netboot images

[Piyush P Kurur]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 07:32:18PM +0530, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Piyush P Kurur <ppk at cse.iitk.ac.in> wrote:
> >

> 
> What I suggest is this -
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Diskless_network_boot_NFS_root
> 

  I saw the wiki. I am not looking for a diskless boot. We have
here a pxelinux boot loader that allows people to select one of
the distros that we mirror here and install it on their machine
by just connecting to ethernet port here and enabling PXE boot.
One of the images is that of arch.

I definitely *do not* want the following

(1) NFS mounts: I prefer to have all the stuff required for
a netinstall in the initrd image. The actual packages will come
from the local mirror. NFS is unnecessarily compilcated and would
mean I have to also run an NFS server and cannot get away with a
tftp server.

(2) No custom kernel: I don't want a custom kernel. The standard
kernel should be made to work.


Besides I thought this is a good oppurtunity to hack a bit
on image creation process.


Best

ppk