Core Snappy on bare metal / PXE

Tobias Oberstein tobias.oberstein at gmail.com
Sun Jan 4 15:52:39 UTC 2015


Am 04.01.2015 um 16:37 schrieb Dan Kegel:
> I and several others have tried Snappy on bare metal
> (see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2014-December/000048.html ).
> All you have to do is convert the image to raw with iirc qemu-img
> and dd it onto the raw device.  I think I had to build qemu-img
> from source to get a new enough version.

Thanks for the hints, Dan. I wasn't aware there is a 2nd mailing list (I 
now subscribed), which has this question asked already.

>
> I haven't set up a pxe server myself, but there must be a thousand pages
> describing how to roll your own, e.g.
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/412574/pxe-boot-server-installation-steps-in-ubuntu-server-vm
> It might be nice to have a canned example showing how to do this with core
> for those in a hurry...

Yep. A "Ubuntu experience", simple to go summary recipe would be nice .. 
in particular for dummies like me who don't do this every day and forget 
everything all the time;)

/Tobias



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