On Mon, 4 Jan 2016 10:39:47 +0000 Dimitri John Ledkov <x...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:55:45 +0100 Daniel Baumann <dan...@debian.org> wrote: > > Package: live-installer > > > > currently, only installation from cdrom or hd-media is working. > > > > it would be nice to support netboot too. the problem is that during > > netboot, one will need to access the filesystem.squashfs, e.g. through a > > networks share or something like that. > > > > I've encountered exactly this problem. Instead of a network share, I > made the assumption that the mirror one is installing against, is in > actual fact a full export of the live ISO image. And thus, I change > the logic (with a hint from Colin) to iterate and search for > filesystem.squashfs twice: once with /cdrom/ prefix, and the second > time with $mirror. > > The patch is here: > http://launchpadlibrarian.net/230268700/live-installer_46ubuntu1_46ubuntu2.diff.gz > > And I shall rework it for debian, due to things that are different > between ubuntu and debian.
oh, the debian version of live-installer doesn't have fetch-url support either =( and for the time being, i'm not sure that i like the fact that we don't verify any checksums or signatures of the squashfs. Regards, Dimitri.
