On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 06:13:59PM +0200, richard lucassen wrote: [cut]
> > Anyway, Debian has such an option and I think it would be very valuable > if such an initrd.gz/vmlinuz would be available from the Devuan > mirrors. This will make Devuan being available through many PXE boot > servers accross the planet. > > That said, I think it should be part of the Devuan distribution. Each > time a new version sees the light, the appropiate vmliz/initrd.gz pairs > should be generated for each available cpu. > I believe that having a netboot option in Devuan is very important, and it would not require much effort, indeed. In the past I have used PXE boot many times to install Debian on headless servers (I still have dhcp and tftp configured for that in my laptop), and it always worked like a charm. We definitely ought have that option, despite real metal servers will unavoidably become an even smaller minority in the server landscape :) My2Cents KatolaZ -- [ ~.,_ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ - GLUGCT -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ "+. katolaz [at] freaknet.org --- katolaz [at] yahoo.it ] [ @) http://kalos.mine.nu --- Devuan GNU + Linux User ] [ @@) http://maths.qmul.ac.uk/~vnicosia -- GPG: 0B5F062F ] [ (@@@) Twitter: @KatolaZ - skype: katolaz -- github: KatolaZ ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
