Does Ubiquity support installing via PXE?

Question

I have a PXE server at home for doing network-based installs, which uses the text-based alternate installer.

However in 10.10 the Ubiquity (aka graphical) installer has some really nice features; like installing in the background while I fill out my user information, installing updates as part of the install, and it looks pretty great.

Is there a way to set up netboot with ubiquity so I can use my existing PXE server but have a nice graphical installation?

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 07 '10 at 10:07

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The trick is to load a minimal system with NFS-Support. This system can start the graphical installer. This hotwo should help setting this up.

If you like experimenting around with pxe I recommend fog, this has alot of features and will setup part of the installation by itself. It will also allow you to backup partitions over network and load them back.

answered Sep 07 '10 at 10:07

sBlatt

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Thanks for the pointer to fog. I wasn't aware of that before, but I'm excited to try it out. – Don Faulkner Sep 07 '10 at 13:11
I accepted evan's answer since it linked me to official docs, but +1 for the other information! – Jorge Castro Sep 15 '10 at 16:47

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 15 '10 at 16:45

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You need to export the live filesystem over NFS, and set the NETBOOT and NFSROOT kernel command line parameters.

See this help document (under "A variation") for the full details.

answered Sep 15 '10 at 16:45

Evan

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Does Ubiquity support installing via PXE?

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