This has been hanging around for a while, but as near as I can find,
we
haven't actually addressed it in a criterion or a criterion proposal,
so
here is one!
Proposing a criterion:
* It must be possible to initiate an installation by booting the
kernel
+initramfs image pair provided for the purpose and supplying a
parameter
specifying the location of installer images. This applies to remotely
initiating such an installation via PXE
This could be at any stage, really, plausibly. The PXE test case is
labelled as Alpha, though, so I guess it should be Alpha.
Petr, did we decide something about PXE when we were doing the
concordance? I can't quite recall, and can't find it in ticket #151.
thanks!
We already have this in Beta:
It must be possible to install by booting the installation kernel directly, including via
PXE, and correctly specifying a remote source for the installer itself, using whichever
protocols are required to work for package retrieval at the current phase (Alpha, Beta,
Final). This must work if the remote source is not a complete repository but contains only
the files necessary for the installer itself to run.
Isn't it basically the same? Do we want to have a simplified version for Alpha?