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FooDeas / raspberrypi-ua-netinst

RaspberryPi (minimal) unattended netinstaller
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Ethernet boot #28

Closed thijstriemstra closed 1 year ago

thijstriemstra commented 8 years ago

Apparently it's possible to boot using ethernet, skipping the fragile SD-card: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pi-3-booting-part-ii-ethernet-all-the-awesome/

Would love to use this with a RaspberryPi 3.

FooDeas commented 8 years ago

It depends on #5. Queued.

kpfleming commented 4 years ago

I use netbooting on most of my Pis, but I don't think it would be practical to implement support for this in the installer (I tried). Doing so requires being able to mount the target root and /boot filesystems using NFS in the installer itself, which would increase complexity significantly.

I'm satisfied using an SD card to run the installer and get a working system, then convert that system to netboot/NFS manually after the installation is complete.

jbragdon1 commented 4 years ago

Looking over the code base, and with an admittedly limited understanding of whats going on under the hood, it looks like early on assumptions are made that there is a local file system. Once the base systems are loaded into ram - I suspect up front, checking for SD card and then writting a temp directory with tools might get this going nicely..... I would love to see this as an option linkted with a local proxy copy of the raspian installer. Effectively, plug in a pi and get it going.