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Joerg Redemann
Copper Contributor
Jun 20, 2017

Installing own Linux distribution from outside Azure?

Hello,

I just start learning Azure and I wonder if the following would work:

Is it possible to upload a boot image with iPXE boot and install Linux via our own repository install server outside of Azure?

Of course assuming all network connections (i.e Azure network -> Internet/VPN -> own install server:443) are set up correctly.

 

Thanks and regards

 

Joerg

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  • Cian Allner's avatar
    Cian Allner
    Silver Contributor
    Jun 20, 2017

    Not something I have done but here an option of creating a custom VM image, ideally, from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/endorsed-distros?toc=%2fazure%2fvirtual-machines%2flinux%2ftoc.json when possible and then uploading into Azure.  Not sure if that was what you were after.

     

    Lots of details here:

     

    • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/create-upload-generic
    • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/upload-vhd

    These images are taken from Hyper-V, where you could PXE Boot possible to create the image I suppose. Worth looking into anyway. The other thing that occurred to me was https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/overview/azure-stack/.

     

    Good luck.

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