Bug 23159

Summary:	mini netinstall iso
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Saleem Khan <drmarwat>
Component:	mkimage-profiles	Assignee:	Антон Мидюков <antohami>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	aen, antohami, boyarsh, erthad, evg, lakostis, mike
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	26300

Description Saleem Khan 2010-03-15 23:20:20 MSK

It would be really practical to have a mini netinstall iso for ALT Linux, many major distributions offer such mini netinstall iso. User can download the base system and requried DE environment accordingly, having DVD iso is ok but netinstall iso will be a good addition.

thanks

Comment 1 Michael Shigorin 2010-03-22 01:18:53 MSK

BTW it will require unsetting "automatic" in syslinux/isolinux configuration.

PS 2 drmarwat: glad to see ;-)

Comment 2 Michael Shigorin 2011-09-21 16:47:04 MSK

I'm working on it within mkimage-profiles framework:
http://www.altlinux.org/Mkimage/Profiles/next

So far it's quite straightforward to produce an ISO having only stage1
or stage1+stage2 (without package base itself), need to re-deploy the
network installation testing stand...

Comment 3 Michael Shigorin 2011-12-20 01:42:41 MSK

It's done to some extent, at least there's an image to install an x86_64 OpenVZ server: http://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/ALT/people/mike/iso/mkimage-profiles/netinst/propagator-20111118-x86_64.iso [17M]

I'm slowly thinking through generalization however...

Comment 4 Saleem Khan 2011-12-21 15:41:21 MSK

Im glad that it is taking a shape ultimately .

Comment 5 Антон Мидюков 2022-10-19 10:47:49 MSK

Уже давно собираем образы только со stage1 с установкой по сети одним из четырёх методов (nfs, cifs, http, ftp):

http://nightly.altlinux.org/sisyphus/current/regular-net-install-latest-i586.iso
http://nightly.altlinux.org/sisyphus/current/regular-net-install-latest-x86_64.iso
http://nightly.altlinux.org/sisyphus-aarch64/current/regular-net-install-latest-aarch64.iso

В образе два ядра, что позволяет загружать все текущие регулярки, главное выбрать правильное ядро. Также нужно выбрать правильно, что загружать: altinst, live или rescue. Поддерживается загрузка как iso целиком, так и только загрузка сквоша.