shreyansh
May 17th, 2008, 11:04 AM
Hi All,
Is it possible to install Ubuntu (Gusty or Hardy) via a NFS image - i.e. Booting through a PXE image and then selecting a NFS partition containing the package repository. This can be done using fedora (any version as far as I know) - but I simply couldn't find a way to do this for Ubuntu.
The problem is that the machine on which Ubuntu has to be installed doesn't have a CDROM drive, and neither do I have high bandwidth connection to perform net install.
I could successfully boot Ubuntu using a PXE image (netboot) but even that doesn't have any option of using NFS as repository. I tried using the alternate CD as well, but with no avail :(
That box runs a old PIII processor with 128MB RAM (I agree quite old, Intel DoTstation if you have heard of).
Any help would be really appreciated.
Regards
Shreyansh
Is it possible to install Ubuntu (Gusty or Hardy) via a NFS image - i.e. Booting through a PXE image and then selecting a NFS partition containing the package repository. This can be done using fedora (any version as far as I know) - but I simply couldn't find a way to do this for Ubuntu.
The problem is that the machine on which Ubuntu has to be installed doesn't have a CDROM drive, and neither do I have high bandwidth connection to perform net install.
I could successfully boot Ubuntu using a PXE image (netboot) but even that doesn't have any option of using NFS as repository. I tried using the alternate CD as well, but with no avail :(
That box runs a old PIII processor with 128MB RAM (I agree quite old, Intel DoTstation if you have heard of).
Any help would be really appreciated.
Regards
Shreyansh