tftpboot/scripts

Scripts

1. Description
2. Scripts list
   • Download Debian
   • Download Ubuntu
   • Make Debian Initrd with Firmware
   • Debian late_command

Description

Set of scripts to download and generate necessary files to allow differents GNU/Linux distributions to boot through the network.

Scripts list

download_debian.sh

The script will provide netboot installers for all Debian (>=Stable) for both i386 and amd64 :

• Store the files to /var/lib/tftpboot (default).
• Download Debian Linux kernel and initrd files for all Debian distributions (Stable : Jessie; Testing : Stretch; Unstable : Sid) and for i386 and amd64 architectures.
• Offer an example menu file to use with a TFTP server (default_path/installer/debian/menu.cfg.example).

download_ubuntu.sh

The script will provide netboot installers for the latest LTS and latest advanced Ubuntu distribution for both i386 and amd64 :

• Store the files to /var/lib/tftpboot (default).
• Download Ubuntu Linux kernel and initrd files for the two lasts Ubuntu distributions (LTS-16.04 : Xenial; 15.10 : Wily) and for i386 and amd64 architectures.
• Make a symlink to access to the LTS (default_path/installer/ubuntu/lts) instead of it's codename.

make_debian_initrd_with_firmware.sh

The script will provide Debian's netboot installers with additionnals firmwares for all Debian (>=Stable) for amd64 only :

• Store the files to /var/lib/tftpboot (default).
• Store temp files to /tmp/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX (with mktemp).
• Download Debian's initrd files for all Debian distributions (Stable : Jessie; Testing : Stretch; Unstable : Sid) for amd64 architecture only.
• Download additionnals firmwares :
  • bnx2 : For Broadcom NetXtremeII network adapters.
  • linux-nonfree : For Tigon network adapters.
  • myricom : For Myricom Myri-10G Ethernet adapters (IBM server).
  • qlogic : For QLogic Infiniband, SCSI, Fibre Channel/FCoE adapters.
• Extract initrd and firmwares packages to build a new initrd.

Debian late_command

Description

Some useful configurations after a Debian installation :

• Smarter rsyslog (more directories and less files in /var/log).
  • Shorter configuration file and use more files from /etc/rsyslog.d/
  • Move log files to directory :
    • kern logs from /var/log/kern.log to /var/log/kernel/kernel.log
    • user logs from /var/log/user.log to /var/log/security/user.log
    • mail logs from /var/log/mail.… to /var/log/mail/mail.…
    • daemon logs from /var/log/daemon.log to /var/log/syslog/daemon.log
    • auth logs from /var/log/auth.log to /var/log/security/auth.log
    • lpr logs from/var/log/lpr.log to /var/log/lpr/lpr.log
    • cron logs from /var/log/cron.log to /var/log/cron/cron.log
    • localX logs from /var/log/localX.log to /var/log/syslog/localX.log
    • syslog logs from /var/log/syslog.log to /var/log/syslog/syslog.log
    • authpriv logs from … to /var/log/security/authpriv.log
• Smarter logrotate (add timestamp, move some old log files to the same directory,…).
• Remove some useless packages.
• Permit root SSH login with password (no standard user…).
• …

How-to use it

• First, make an archive of the script and directories :

tar czvf finish.tar.gz latecommand/

• Then, it can be use at the end of a Debian preseed file :

d-i preseed/late_command string in-target chsh -s /bin/zsh ; \
in-target /usr/bin/tftp ${IP.SRV.TFTP} -c get ${PATH/TO/TFTPD/ROOT}/finish.tar.gz /tmp/finish.tar.gz ; \
in-target tar xzf /tmp/finish.tar.gz -C /tmp/ ; \
in-target /bin/sh /tmp/latecommand/post.sh