Now that I know what keywords to look for, I've stumbled across this
writeup which would have saved me a few weeks of spare time:
http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-unattended-ubuntu-network-installThis describes pretty much exactly what I was showing folks last night:
- Set up DHCP server
- Set up TFTP server
- Set up HTTP server (that walkthrough glosses over this step)
- Set up syslinux for network boot
- Set up preseed file
The PXE client will boot up, retrieve syslinux, boot into Debian-
Installer, fetch the preseed file, and magically install the system
you've configured in the preseed file.
Thanks to the help from you folk at the meeting, I now have Debian
"Lenny" and Ubuntu "Hardy Heron" set up as automatic install options.
The magic required to do this will shortly be making its way to
github, just as soon as I have the opportunity to repeat the
experiment on my Ubuntu laptop.
Alex
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