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after ipxe boot write image to another part of usb drive, then boot it? - jac - 2016-02-04 09:24
I would like to perform the following steps:
1. write ipxe image to usb (YES)
2. plug usb drive into machine then boot (YES)
3. download an image from http server (YES)
4. write the image to another part of the usb drive (???)
5. boot the new image, which is a linux from scratch system (???)
Is this possible with ipxe? Or perhaps even with some mods to ipxe source? Thanks in advance.
RE: after ipxe boot write image to another part of usb drive, then boot it? - mcb30 - 2016-02-04 14:17
(2016-02-04 09:24)jac Wrote: I would like to perform the following steps:
1. write ipxe image to usb (YES)
2. plug usb drive into machine then boot (YES)
3. download an image from http server (YES)
4. write the image to another part of the usb drive (???)
5. boot the new image, which is a linux from scratch system (???)
Is this possible with ipxe? Or perhaps even with some mods to ipxe source? Thanks in advance.
iPXE has no support for writing to disk. Use iPXE to boot directly into the Linux installer, and let the Linux installer handle writing to the disk.
Michael