Installing Ubuntu Server on HP ProLiant DL140 w/o CD

[J]

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:50, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 29 March 2011 16:16, J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:08, Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > I have two HP ProLiant DL140's without CD's and am wondering whether I
>> > need
>> > to use HP SmartStart or whether I can just boot PXELinux and then Ubuntu
>> > Server ?
>> > Aaron
>>
>> You can PXEboot the installer and do net installs.  The kernel and
>> initrd for doing PXE should be in the install dir on the ISO image.
>
> So I don't need SmartStart ?

I don't know that you do, if you're using it in your Infrastructure
already, then it may be better to use that.  I just know that you can
PXE boot the installers like you can any other linux distro without
needing a provisioning system.  I'm not terribly familiar with
SmartStart, though.

>>
>> You can also use USB sticks to install server (since you only have two
>> of them to do that may be easier and faster than setting up PXE)
>
> DL150 G3 does not boot from USB according to documentation.

Ahhh.. doh.  Scratch that then... :-)