Updating PXE net bootable Debian installer

Owned by Andrew Goodbody
Last updated: Sept 08, 2023
1 min read

Currently the first network port can PXE boot to a Debian installer. At some point in the future this may become out of date and then it will fail to install due to not being able to find the correct modules to match the kernel it uses.

In order to update the network installer you need to perform the following steps.

  1. Download netboot.tar.gz from Debian bookworm netboot or more probably a more recent version of that file.

  2. Upload netboot.tar.gz to the PXE tftp host which is at the moment ai-worker-01, the LAVA proxy VM with access to the network in the Colo.

  3. Login to ai-worker-01 and cd to the tftp root which is /var/lib/lava/dispatcher/tmp

  4. Move or remove the current debian-installer directory.

  5. Extract the contents of netboot.tar.gz to create a new debian-installer directory.

  6. Restart the tftp server

    # systemctl restart tftpd-hpa

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