User:Tonyr/Journal/Aug07

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02Aug07

Netinstall
The mini.iso file in the netboot file collection is a bootable CD image that will orchestrate an Ubuntu install using a remote repository. The most reasonable (and recommended) repository is the one in the Unitesd States (there are repos all over the world). It may be hat there are closer repositories than the standard one, us.archive.ubuntu.org. There may be one at OSU. There should eventually be a local repo at FreeGeek. That would be nice, but in the mean time downloading packages is speeded up anyway because the files are cached by the newly implemented Transparent Proxy.

I am still hopeful that the netboot/netinstall process can be implemented with the (modified) boot files being supplied by a local tftp server, but I'm no sure what, if anything, is being done to allow Macs boot and start the netinstall transparently, that is, not have to use OF to specify the tftp server explicitly from OF.

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