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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 ...
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.