Re:Netboot
by mercora on Monday January 18, 2016 @08:26AM
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After boot.kernel.org and netboot.me seem dead now i like to see this kind of thing available again. I acknowledge the threat of downloading these boot images over the internet but think it is actually not that much different from downloading the iso... from the internet. Sure, i could verify the image more easily but i barely did this in the past. However the ability to verify the the images would be nice though.
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Re:Netboot
by theantonym on Monday January 18, 2016 @08:35AM
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Dev here. The project is just a bunch of iPXE scripts that understands how each distro works and routes you to their hosted bits or a trusted mirror once you select the image. I've tried to keep all of the code on Github and the Travis CI deployment out in the open for that very reason. A project like this needs to be highly visible in order to be trusted to a degree. I also have things like image verification and https support on the list of things to do.