On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 09:18:33PM -0800, Jun Sun wrote: > After some internet searching, it seems pretty clear that QEMU/mips cannot > boot from debian CD. I hope anyone can prove that I'm wrong here. > > Lacking of booting from CD-ROM, the next fancy idea I can think of is to > set up the host so that it fakes to the network installer, providing files > requested by installer with URL and supplying them from CD-ROM instead. To > make this work, there should be some strick 1:1 mapping between the files > on the internet and the files in the CD, which is beyond my knowledge. > > Anyone can confirm or disconfirm whether this route might be feasible?
Yes, I can confirm that netbooting is feasible. Regards Geert Stappers Fully aware that this a cross-post P.S. Do note that the reply comes after the question.
