LDS image update tool

Available image types:

• Tools, used for diagnosing systems, etc (Must me manually enabled in ipxe file)
• Installers, for installing a disto
• Depercated_Installer, for installing a older distro (does not use LinuxInstallers-ID.ipxe)

Installation instructions

Part of LDS-based separate installation is not advised

1. Install required packages (just for building and downloading images)

• All distros: ca-certificates zstd cpio
• Deb based: genisoimage wget unzip
• Alpine Linux: bash cdrkit

2. Clone this repo
3. Enter into the project folder
4. Update www location in Locations.conf to the webserver folder
5. Link the ipxe image list to LDS by running ln -s <PathToThisProject>/LinuxInstallers-ID.ipxe <PathToBootserver>/iPXE
6. Update the ipxe of the boot server to chain load LinuxInstallers-ID.ipxe for the installers you can also enable Gparted and/or the Clonezilla enrty
7. Follow the usage Instructions below

Usage instructions

Make sure you are in the directory that contains the script

• Run bash Download-AllInstallers.sh to download all (non deprecated) installers
• Run bash Download-AllInstallers.sh to download all tools
• Run bash Installer-<DistoNameAndVersion>.sh to download a specific version

iPXE config examples (not needed for LDS)

Gparted

kernel http://${next-server}/Tools/Gparted/vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img boot=live config components union=overlay username=user noswap noeject fetch=http://${next-server}/Tools/Gparted/filesystem.squashfs
initrd http://${next-server}/Tools/Gparted/initrd.img
boot

CloneZilla

kernel http://${next-server}/Tools/CloneZilla/vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img boot=live username=user union=overlay config components noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid locales= keyboard-layouts= ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 nosplash noprompt fetch=http://${next-server}/Tools/CloneZilla/filesystem.squashfs
initrd http://${next-server}/Tools/CloneZilla/initrd.img
boot

SystemRescueCD

kernel http://${next-server}/Tools/SystemRescueCD/vmlinuz archisobasedir=Tools/SystemRescueCD ip=dhcp archiso_http_srv=http://${next-server}/
initrd  http://${next-server}/Tools/SystemRescueCD/intel_ucode.img
initrd  http://${next-server}/Tools/SystemRescueCD/amd_ucode.img
initrd  http://${next-server}/Tools/SystemRescueCD/sysresccd.img
boot

Debian

kernel http://${next-server}/Installer/Debian/10/linux initrd=initrd.gz
initrd http://${next-server}/Installer/Debian/10/initrd.gz
boot

Ubuntu (20.10 and older)

kernel http://${next-server}/Installer/Ubuntu/20.04/linux initrd=initrd.gz
initrd http://${next-server}/Installer/Ubuntu/20.04/initrd.gz
boot

Ubuntu (21.04 and newer)

kernel http://${next-server}/Installer/Ubuntu/22.04/vmlinuz url=http://${next-server}/Installer/Ubuntu/22.04/Ubuntu22.04.iso only-ubiquity ip=dhcp
initrd http://${next-server}/Installer/Ubuntu/22.04/initrd
boot

Fedora and (RedHat, Rocky, Alma and Oracle) Enterprise Linux version 8 and higher

kernel  http://${next-server}/Installer/Fedora/36/vmlinuz initrd=initrd.img inst.stage2=https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/36/Everything/x86_64/os/ devfs=nomount ip=dhcp
initrd  http://${next-server}/Installer/Fedora/36/initrd.img
boot

Proxmox

kernel  http://${next-server}/Installer/Proxmox/linux26 video=vesafb:ywrap,ntrr ramdisk_size=16777216 rw quiet spash=silent
initrd  http://${next-server}/Installer/Proxmox/initrd
boot