Lightweight distro for PXE installation?
After a multi-weekend struggle with wrapping my head around the intricacies of iPXE and dnsmasq, I finally have a working PXE server. To my dismay, it turns out that my usual distro of choice for old machines - Bodhi Linux - does not support installing over network. What distro could take its place? Requirements are running on 32-bit CPUs and 1 GB of RAM or less.
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Alpine can PXE-boot, though the feature is marked as "prototypal". You also need to know that Alpine uses Busybox.
EDIT: I now see that you need installation from PXE. Unfortunately, I don't see PXE listed among the installation howtos. |
Debian has always supported a network installation.
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Usually, if a distribution uses casper on its live iso image (which most Ubuntu-based distros including Bodhi do), then it can be made installed over network by extracting relevant files from the iso image and configuring PXE appropriately. |
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https://slitaz.org perhaps?
(your can start the pxe loading with each event. available old SliTaz CD! if not, download one ISO at https://mirror.slitaz.org , mount it in a loop and copy the content on the main drive to install it FRUGAL (it is a matter of few minutes) and start it using grub and burn a CD with the tools all included in SliTaz. You can also use the Floppy Disk starter image from SliTaz for PXE if a FD drive available! |
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