[OpenIndiana-discuss] netbooting openindiana

[Till Wegmüller]

To add

The Magic incantation to build the the ISO is:

```
distro_const build /usr/share/distro_const/text_install/text_mode_x86.xml

```

The package to install is: 
`pkg:/install/distribution-constructor at 0.5.11-2022.0.0.1065`

-Till


On 04.03.23 22:45, Marcel Telka wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 10:24:12PM +0100, Till Wegmüller wrote:
>> Due to limitations on how the install media are created at the this is not
>> possible. You would have to develop a media that can do that. Some work has
>> been done to allow supplying the media via NFS after booting the kernel but
>> it is undocumented and very beta.
>>
>> Contributions welcome. I can also help getting you started on that
>> development effort.
> 
> The good news is that with this merged:
> https://github.com/OpenIndiana/slim_source/pull/72 the install image
> supports network booting OOTB.  The only problem is that the latest
> available install image at https://www.openindiana.org/download/ was
> created before the above PR got merged.
> 
> To make the netboot working you just need to mount the ISO image on your NFS
> server, share the mounted ISO via NFSv3 and configure your PXE server
> properly (see `man pxeboot`).
> 
> Without the above PR merged you would additionally need to manually
> mount the install media once OpenIndiana boots over PXE using the
> following command:
> 
> 	mount -o vers=3 NFSSERVER:ROOTPATH /.cdrom
> 
> 
> HTH.
>