On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:47, Trent W. Buck <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote:
Marcus Furlong wrote:
It looks like you could loop mount an ubuntu cd, copy the vmlinuz/initrd/pxelinux.{0.cfg} and pxechain the netboot installer and choose the "Install in OEM mode" option, e.g.
label ubuntu kernel pxechain.com append ::ubuntu/11.10/amd64/pxelinux.0
Urk. Just use the normal ubuntu netboot d-i, e.g.
Much of a muchness, they're the same files.
No, they aren't. The netboot ramdisk includes drivers for NICs. The CD ramdisk includes drivers for SCSI/ATA. If you netboot the CD ramdisk, you won't be able to reach the udebs that contain the other drivers. Well, unless you *also* had the udebs on a local CD or HDD, but that would seem a roundabout way to perform a network install.
For the current version of ubuntu, the md5sums are the same for initrd.gz on the mini.iso and for the downloadable netboot initrd.gz. When I said loop-mount the cd image, I was referring to the netboot cd image. http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/installer-amd64/curren... http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/ubuntu/dists/oneiric/main/installer-amd64/curren... Marcus. -- Marcus Furlong