netboot

Build netboot/webboot files using live-build tooling. My goal in this project is just to have a reference on how to build a minimalist netboot image (near 100MB if possible. Currently a tiny bit over but that little extra does had functionality in the image and a maintained build tools). I kept running into issues with ubuntu's live-build so I've switched to using Debian's. This is why packer is configured to use debian:bookwork as its container. This caused the image to increase in size some (20-30MB) but I'll deal with it later.

What gets built?

ubuntu 22.04 netboot
- netplan
  - renderer set to networkd
  - enable any onboard interface (ie en*)
- systemd
  - systemd-sysv
- dbus
  - required for systemd to work
- iproute2
- less

You can change what you want / need.

Tools needed to build this

packer
- docker
vagrant
libvirt

Build

run make

Testing

run vagrant up
- attach to the console (hint use virt-manager or configure serial output)

TODO

List of things you might still need to address/fix/add/etc...