Netboot images for 20.04 Beta missing

[lerxst]

20.04 Beta release announcement (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2020-April/000255.html)

It was announced that the netboot images for 20.04 (focal) Beta release are available from the following location for testing: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/20.04/

However, the above link throws a 404 error. Although this is not an issue with this package, but it's preventing this package from being tested during the 20.04 beta phase, therefore, I'm submitting this bug against this package.

Please fix... Thank you!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Dan Cooper (pcfan1234)]

Maybe this works: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/installer-amd64/current/legacy-images/netboot/
I haven't tried that yet.

[lerxst (lerxst)]

Yes, those images work - I was able to locate them soon after filing this report.
The netboot images are also present within the legacy-server ISO image under the /install directory.

[Dan Cooper (pcfan1234)]

And why aren't they linked here: ftp://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/netboot/20.04/index.html
?

[Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam)]

Same here. Can you please ask someone in irc channel.

[lerxst (lerxst)]

They are not linked because the powers-that-be at Canonical have decided that users don't need it and it should be discontinued. There are some hints that these will be removed at the next point release!

[Roderick Groesbeek (rgroesb)]

Why discontinued?
This is breaking the way we PXE booted Ubuntu installations for ages.

Is there some magic procedural change happening at Canocical related to the "Try the New Ubuntu Server Installer" ?

In these Public/Private/Cloud/VM environments PXE booting is very convenient, and therefor we would like to see the same workflow/procedure be supported for the 20.04 LTS as for the upcoming Ubuntu releases.