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debian-installer package

There is no documented way to UEFI/PXE netboot debian-installer in Jammy

Bug #1969909 reported by Sami Niemimäki
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This bug affects 5 people
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debian-installer (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

Since there is no mini.iso available anymore, there does not seem to be a way to UEFI/PXE netboot debian-installer. This is a showstopper for our installations. We currently have about 1500 Desktop/Laptop computers, which we install over the network.

The web page at http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/jammy/main/installer-amd64/current/legacy-images/ suggests that we should use server installer instead, but this is troublesome and inefficient with the huge server install image.

We would prefer to continue using debian-installer, which easily allows us to install just few packages and then hand over the process to puppet in d-i preseed/late_command.

Could you please reconsider releasing the mini.iso or provide some other way to netboot preseeded debian-installer.

Thank you.

Sami Niemimäki (niemimsa)
affects: debian-installer-launcher (Ubuntu) → debian-installer (Ubuntu)
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in debian-installer (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Sami Niemimäki (niemimsa)
summary: - The is no documented way to UEFI/PXE netboot debian-installer in Jammy
+ There is no documented way to UEFI/PXE netboot debian-installer in Jammy
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