Hello,

Yesterday evening a guy on irc #amigaimpact asked about a net installation of ubuntu. I answered that i would try to help him, i searched and i finded http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/installation/netboot . Then i asked on irc #ubuntu-fr, someone indicated to me http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/ and http://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=3D7799 . But i ask me if these solutions are available for each plateform on which ubuntu can be installed or if they only concern i386 plateform. Does anyone have a correct answer please about that possibility of installation ? Geoffrey if positive it would be a good idea to include this net installation on wikipeg.org and on the pdf documentation you have created.

Brumiga

At least there is also an image for PowerPC available so it should work on Pegasos too.

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/ ... c/netboot/

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I'll convert this and test it and put it up for everyone ASAP.

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Matt Sealey

thanks Neko, that's great, thanks for saving this planet from tons of toxic burned CDs used only for once or twice...
netinstalls rocks !

Okay Sven made a vmlinuz image of the NetInstall kernel and I am testing it now. It will be up and online by the end of the day in the sidebar

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still not in the side bar ?
sven is always a hero, thanks !

I have the file somewhere. My laptop died a few hours after I posted that I have spent all the time I have trying to back up files and rebuild the system.

If I run across it in the backups I will throw it up there (posting from an ANCIENT Hoary Hedgehog system right now) but otherwise please take pity on my situation and be a little more patient.. sorry

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ooooops i didn't mean to sound impatient, sorry to hear about your laptop Neko, hope u'll get things sorted out and that you haven't lost some of your important datas ! cheers

Neko

Very cool, net install is the way to go, especially for people with bandwidth restriction and who can't dl isos.

magnetic

The team did a good job making this happen. We are shipping more and more machines with Ubuntu. Last week we shipped 40 machines. Interestingly, the IBM purchased machines with Ubuntu that went to Morgan State and will be used for an AltiVec Development Lab.

R&B

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We will get Matt to get this online tomorrow. He should be up and running again.

R&B

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Cool !

That would also be cool to have the Ubuntu Dapper LiveCD ISO for Pegasos available for download from PPCZone.org with the good kernel files and mkvmlinuz.

Neko was also talking about that in another thread...

Its the 5th where is the files?

magnetic

ps This is a great idea and would be good if there was a gentoo one as well..

I'm building a Gentoo system atm.
It's going to be a light one. If it works I can try to make a LiveCD but it won't be as good as the one that Frostwork is preparing.

You have to download and compile the Gentoo stuff manually as in the handbook anyway. If you only had a single kernel file which ran an installer, this would defeat the object of Gentoo; you wouldn't have enough tools available to do any of the things Gentoo expects you to do in the handbook.

Of course you can install packages from the GRP, but if you are going to do that, why don't you just use Ubuntu?

I'm still working on the files. The netboot one seemed to convert properly but the other install CD kernels did not because they have been stripped for space on the CDs - I have asked one of the Ubuntu guys for an unstripped kernel or so (it seems impossible to compile one from the config+linux-source-2.6.15 source package from the Ubuntu archives, if you run Dapper..)

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