[arch-releng] PXEboot + unattended install

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 21:38:25 +0200
Jesse Jaara <jesse.jaara at gmail.com> wrote:

> There is also archiso-pxe something ... script in aur wich will set up pxe
> and uses nbd to mount the ISO over lan

Right, archiso-pxe-server, that's the thing Greg should be looking at.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Archiso_as_pxe_server
It's written by Gerardo, who did also most or even all of the related work in archiso.
it uses NBD (which is surprisingly simple to set up).
I believe I once set this up and was very easy and worked nicely.
(unless you already have a dnsmasq that should stay up, last time i checked this script invoked a new dnsmasq instance with some custom settings, which could give issues if you already use dnsmasq)

Dieter