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# hardware4future
# Automated linux installation for hardware4future
This repo is for resources related to automated installation of linux on devices that are to be donated to others in the context of the project hardware for future.
## PXE boot
- Installing debian via pxe boot is done via serving the contents of netboot.tar.gz via tftp, follow the [official docs](https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall#Provide_the_boot_image).
+ We tried the dnsmasq way: no other tftp/dhcp server necessary. It worked.
- Unfortunately Linux Mint doesn't officially support PXE boot. We are currently trying the way in [ubuntu netboot docs](https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/how-to/installation/how-to-netboot-the-server-installer-on-amd64/).
+ Caution: don't serve the files for legacy boot, even our "old" hardwares are too new to support that. We need UEFI booting.
+ It allows serving a whole iso via HTTP. Can we serve the lmde7 iso this way?
+ So far without success. It seems the efi files we prepped do not like to linux mint iso.