Comment 21 for bug 1407714

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-01-09 11:51 EDT-------
Making comment available externally as well:

(In reply to comment #44)
> (In reply to comment #34)
> I believe there are several other cases, specially among test teams and some
> cloud deployments, where they download an ISO and use it as a network
> install mirror, in order to save network bandwidth / install time.
>
> However, they need to get the vmlinux/initrd from ports.ubuntu.com/netboot
> (with the network modules), and that quickly becomes out-of-sync with the
> kernel modules udeb packages from the ISO, rendering it unuseful.
>
> If the change is not too much trouble, it would be really great to have this
> working.
>

To add support here is another example of such a use case:
OpenPOWER Cluster Genesis, a hardware provisioning tool that supports Ubuntu
installation (https://github.com/open-power-ref-design/cluster-genesis),
also utilizes the ppc64el netboot initrd along with the installation ISO
image. Some users require deployement within an isolated network without
access to an Ubuntu repository mirror. The x86 Ubuntu ISO images contain
everything needed to setup a local PXE boot environment (installation source
+ netboot initrd), while the ppc64el installation source and netboot initrd
must be obtained separately. A consistent, architecture independent approach
to setting up local Ubuntu PXE install environments would be more practical.