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Creating a Netboot Image

Note: you will need root privileges for most of the operations (lh_build) except lh_config.

Check that you have enough space left on drive as your image and the cache files can be 1 GB and more quickly. 

$ df -hlk

Make a working directory and change into it. 

$ mkdir mydeblive; cd mydeblive

Create the config/ subdirectory and some templated configuration files. 

$ lh_config

Set net binary image. 

$ lh_config --binary-images net

Set netboot server directory, where the root files are. 

$ lh_config --net-root-path "/nfsroot/debian-live"

Set the address of the server, that will provide the NFS-Export above. 

$ lh_config --net-root-server "192.168.0.1"

Its a good idea to call lh_config only once to prevent sideeffects this could look like: 

$ lh_config --binary-images net \
            --net-root-path "/nfsroot/debian-live" \
            --net-root-server "192.168.0.1"

Generate the image. 

# lh_build

When image generation finished, there will be two subdirectories:

Copy the content of the "binary" directory into the net-root-path 

# cp binary/ /nfsroot/debian-live

Now adjust the tftpboot (PXE) settings