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Michael Prokop | 26 Nov 10:14
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Re: Netboot package for grml64 2008_11

* Jason White <jason <at> jasonjgw.net> [20081126 01:08]:

> Is there a netboot package for grml64 2008_11? If not, is there a script to
> create one?

Yeah, there's a script:

% grml-tips netboot
Create netboot package for grml-terminalserver:

# sh /usr/share/doc/grml-terminalserver/examples/create-netboot

We use that script for creating the official netboot packages as
well and we will provide official netboot packages as soon as the
stable release is on the way (which is expected to happen with the
next few days).

regards,
-mika-

* Jason White <jason <at> jasonjgw.net> [20081126 01:08]:

> Is there a netboot package for grml64 2008_11? If not, is there a script to
> create one?

Yeah, there's a script:

% grml-tips netboot
Create netboot package for grml-terminalserver:
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Jason White | 26 Nov 10:51

Re: Netboot package for grml64 2008_11

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:14:01AM +0100, Michael Prokop wrote:
> Yeah, there's a script:
> 
> % grml-tips netboot
> Create netboot package for grml-terminalserver:
> 
> # sh /usr/share/doc/grml-terminalserver/examples/create-netboot

Thank you for the details.
> 
> We use that script for creating the official netboot packages as
> well and we will provide official netboot packages as soon as the
> stable release is on the way (which is expected to happen with the
> next few days).

I'll need it next week, which makes the timing of the release perfect from my
point of view.

I have a Debian box here that I plan to use as the tftp and nfs server for
booting a laptop via PXE into grml.
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Markus Wigge | 26 Nov 19:33
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Re: Netboot package for grml64 2008_11

Hi list,

> % grml-tips netboot
> Create netboot package for grml-terminalserver:
> 
> # sh /usr/share/doc/grml-terminalserver/examples/create-netboot
> 
> We use that script for creating the official netboot packages as
> well and we will provide official netboot packages as soon as the
> stable release is on the way (which is expected to happen with the
> next few days).
fine I thought.
First of all I extracted a grml-small squashfs.
Then I chrooted to the squashfs-root created by unsquashfs to "apt-get
install grml-terminalserver".

Now executing the above mentioned script resulted in a minor error
because "make" was not installed as a dependancy.
Further on it tried to setup the chroot environment as the
terminalserver which I never intended ...

Finally I got a grml_netboot_package_grml-small_2008.11-rc1.tar.bz2
containing nothing useful:
grml_netboot_package_grml-small_2008.11-rc1/
grml_netboot_package_grml-small_2008.11-rc1/grub.img
grml_netboot_package_grml-small_2008.11-rc1/tftpboot/
grml_netboot_package_grml-small_2008.11-rc1/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/
grml_netboot_package_grml-small_2008.11-rc1/tftpboot/pxelinux.0
grml_netboot_package_grml-small_2008.11-rc1/grub_enabled_nics
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Michael Gebetsroither | 26 Nov 20:20
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Re: Netboot package for grml64 2008_11

Michael Prokop wrote:
> * Jason White <jason <at> jasonjgw.net> [20081126 01:08]:
> 
>> Is there a netboot package for grml64 2008_11? If not, is there a script to
>> create one?
> 
> Yeah, there's a script:
> 
> % grml-tips netboot
> Create netboot package for grml-terminalserver:
> 
> # sh /usr/share/doc/grml-terminalserver/examples/create-netboot
> 
> We use that script for creating the official netboot packages as
> well and we will provide official netboot packages as soon as the
> stable release is on the way (which is expected to happen with the
> next few days).

Sorry, we have switched to live-initramfs, thus create-netboot is
deprecated (it was for our old initrd).

Boot the grml from which you want to create the netboot package and
execute grml-terminalserver.

The pxe initramfs is automatically created and placed under
/var/lib/tftpboot.

michael
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Jason White | 30 Nov 09:28

Re: Netboot package for grml64 2008_11

Is it possible to place grml in a chroot environment on a debian system, then
boot into it from another machine using PXE?

The advantage here is that I could make configuration changes, e.g., to have
sshd started during the boot process with my public key configured to allow
login. I could also add packages and make other configuration changes.

I noticed that there are chroot tar files of grml releases, but distributed as
tar files rather than compressed (tar.gz, tar.bz2), making them more
bandwidth-consuming to download.
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