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Re: pxe boot over http rather than nfs

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On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:24:24AM -0400, Greg Fitzgerald wrote:
> On Fri Apr 29 10:45AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 09:44:17AM -0400, Greg Fitzgerald wrote:
> > > I'm pxe booting the debian live cd. I currently serve
> > > filesystem.squashfs over nfs, but I'm wondering if there is a way to
> > > serve it over http like other distros offer?
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > LABEL jessie-live
> >     MENU LABEL Jessie Live
> >     KERNEL debian/jessie/live/vmlinuz
> >     INITRD debian/jessie/live/initrd.img
> >     APPEND boot=live
> > fetch=http://servername.tld/isos/debian-live-8.3.0-amd64-standard.iso 
> > 
> > for example.
> > 
> > Note that it does not, at this time, appear to work with https.
> > 
> > -dsr-
> > 
> 
> Thanks. Does fetch have to pass the iso file or can it just point to the
> squashfs file?

In theory, the squashfs should work. In practice, I haven't
tried that.

-dsr-

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pxe boot over http rather than nfs Greg Fitzgerald <greg@gregf.org> - 2016-04-29 15:50 +0200
  Re: pxe boot over http rather than nfs Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-04-29 16:50 +0200
    Re: pxe boot over http rather than nfs Greg Fitzgerald <greg@gregf.org> - 2016-04-29 17:30 +0200
      Re: pxe boot over http rather than nfs Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2016-04-29 18:10 +0200
        Re: pxe boot over http rather than nfs Greg Fitzgerald <greg@gregf.org> - 2016-04-29 20:50 +0200

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