cdist-type__install

cdist-type__install_stage(7)

Steven Armstrong

<steven-cdist--@--armstrong.cc>

Table of Contents

1. NAME
2. DESCRIPTION
3. REQUIRED PARAMETERS
4. OPTIONAL PARAMETERS
5. BOOLEAN PARAMETERS
6. EXAMPLES
7. SEE ALSO
8. COPYING

1. NAME

cdist-type__install_stage - download and unpack a stage file

2. DESCRIPTION

Downloads a operating system stage using curl and unpacks it to /target using tar. The stage tarball is expected to be gzip compressed.

3. REQUIRED PARAMETERS

uri: The uri from which to fetch the tarball. Can be anything understood by curl, e.g: http://path/to/stage.tgz tftp:///path/to/stage.tgz file:///local/path/stage.tgz

4. OPTIONAL PARAMETERS

target: where to unpack the tarball to. Defaults to /target.

5. BOOLEAN PARAMETERS

insecure: run curl in insecure mode so it does not check the servers ssl certificate

6. EXAMPLES

__install_stage --uri tftp:///path/to/stage.tgz
__install_stage --uri http://path/to/stage.tgz --target /mnt/foobar
__install_stage --uri file:///path/to/stage.tgz --target /target
__install_stage --uri https://path/to/stage.tgz --target /mnt/foobar --insecure

7. SEE ALSO

cdist-type(7)