On 6/8/19 7:45 PM, Jonathan Carter wrote: > On 2019/06/08 19:36, Simon McVittie wrote: >> If the pre-prepared installation image is in a suitable format (for >> example an unpacked tree, squashfs or OSTree, but not a tarball or an >> OCI image), then there's no reason it couldn't also be bootable as a >> stateless live system. > > It might be useful to some that we'll have a 'standard' image for Debian > Live Buster. This is a base image with Debian standard that doesn't > contain any desktop environment. It ships with d-i with a module that > just unsquashes the squashfs image (just like the other live images), so > it's a really quick and convenient way to get a Debian system installed > on bare metal. > > -Jonathan
This is more or less what my openstack-cluster-installer is doing: booting a live image over PXE+HTTP, and install Debian from there. See: https://salsa.debian.org/openstack-team/debian/openstack-cluster-installer which I'm going to present in Curitiba at Debconf 19. The only bit which I don't have is the use of pre-built images to install on a system. But that could be done. That's what fuel was doing: prepare image on the PXE server, copy them over the network. If we are to build such a new installer, then *please*, let's think about building clusters as well, not just individual desktops. Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)