glug101
October 7th, 2009, 05:33 PM
My appologies if this is answered elsewhere, but I keep finding similar methods, but not exactly what I am looking for. I'm considering having an installation party for the release of Karmic, and thought it would be cool/efficient to install the OS over the network. Since this installation method is certainly NOT available for windows, I feel it is a good example of some of the fundamental differences of Linux versus Mac or Windows. Also, I can get away with burning a simple netboot loader and use the same cd with all the pcs.
So far, I have successfully setup netbooting through PXE and loaded a Ubuntu (9.04) install image. The problem I have is that the image tries to pull all the packages over the internet. This will NOT be cool during the early release period, since I don't want to eat bandwidth on the repositories if I don't have to, and I don't want to wait for EVERYTHING to be pulled from repositories.
I must confess that it might be better to just burn a bunch of alternate install CDs and run the installs that way since I don't honestly believe that I'll get that many people to come to the install party, but it's an interesting exercise that I am very close to cracking.
In short: I would like to know if anybody knows a way to get a network booted image to pull install files from a local server through FTP/HTTP/NFS.
Thank you so much :)
So far, I have successfully setup netbooting through PXE and loaded a Ubuntu (9.04) install image. The problem I have is that the image tries to pull all the packages over the internet. This will NOT be cool during the early release period, since I don't want to eat bandwidth on the repositories if I don't have to, and I don't want to wait for EVERYTHING to be pulled from repositories.
I must confess that it might be better to just burn a bunch of alternate install CDs and run the installs that way since I don't honestly believe that I'll get that many people to come to the install party, but it's an interesting exercise that I am very close to cracking.
In short: I would like to know if anybody knows a way to get a network booted image to pull install files from a local server through FTP/HTTP/NFS.
Thank you so much :)