- Requires a Linux system using the GRUB2 bootloader.
- Download 15_netinstall to
/etc/grub.d/15_netinstall. chmod +x /etc/grub.d/15_netinstallupdate-grubThis will download the iPXE loader to/boot, detect your IPv4 network config and add the netinstall menu entries to yourgrub.cfg.- Reboot.
This script was primarily written for (re-)installing virtual private servers, the hosters of which usually don't run a DHCP server. One therefore needs to manually configure the network — first for iPXE, and again for the actual installation. The script automatically adds the necessary configuration for iPXE to the GRUB commandline, but some of the installers require manual work:
The Arch installer will boot with proper network interface configuration, but
without a DNS resolver configured. Let it attempt to download airootfs.sfs,
which will timeout after 20 seconds.
Then echo 'nameserver 8.8.8.8' > /etc/resolv.conf and download airootfs.sfs
to the directory that was created by the installer — should be something under
/run (both the directory and the URL will still be visible on your screen, so
you can copy it from there). Exit the shell and the system should proceed to
boot the installer.
The Debian installer asks you for your network configuration if it cannot automatically detect it, so you should be all set just following the installer.
Set up the network, download the MANIFEST that contains the checksums of the
installation packages, start the installer:
ifconfig xn0 inet <public ip> netmask 255.255.255.0
route delete default; route add default <public ip x.x.x.1>
echo "nameserver 8.8.8.8" > /etc/resolv.conf
mkdir /usr/freebsd-dist
cd /usr/freebsd-dist
fetch http://ftp.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/11.0-RELEASE/MANIFEST
bsdinstall