{% block container %}

What is this?

You've stumbled upon Butterknife server instance, some cool kids are hosting Linux-based operating system templates here as Btrfs snapshots and you can deploy those templates on your computer. See Butterknife project website what this fuss is all about.

How to use it?

You are reccommended to boot Butterknife provisioning image either from PXE or from memory stick.

1 Provision using memory stick

Download ISO file and write it on a memory stick 

wget -c http://butterknife.rocks/provision/butterknife-amd64.iso
sudo dd if=butterknife-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdx

Windows users may want to give Win32 Disk Imager a try. You can also set up TFTP server for booting via PXE, see GitHub page for more information. If something doesn't work as expected make sure you're using up to date provisioning image.

2 Boot the machine

Boot the machine either from memory stick. Refer to your motherboard manual for temporary boot device. Note that currently Butterknife supports legacy boot methods only, hence make sure you have turned (U)EFI and secure boot off.

3 Follow instructions on the screen

Make sure you're connected to a DHCP-enabled router via ethernet cable and wait for Butterknife provisioning image to boot up. Once you've landed at following screen, you're almost done, just follow instructions of the screen:

Butterknife wipes the harddisk, creates a Btrfs filesystem and downloads the snapshot to newly created filesystem by default. There are options to use unpartitioned disk space, reformat a partition, resize NTFS filesystem and even receive into existing Btrfs filesystem. Once the snapshot is downloaded you can join the machine to an Active Directory compatible domain or create a local user account. Finally post installation scripts reconfigure bootloader and if you're lucky enough you're greeted with a shiny Linux OS deployment.

Run downstream server

In case you want to run downstream Butterknife server with snapshots on this machine you can use butterknife pull feature, but first install Butterknife:

pip3 install butterknife

Pull the snapshots from this server:

butterknife pull {{request.uri}}

Run downstream server: 

butterknife serve

This of course assumes you're running on top of Btrfs filesystem and your Btrfs utilities are up-to-date.

Available snapshots

Following snapshots are available on this server, use butterknife pull to download the snapshots to your local server as described above or use Butterknife provisioning image to deploy the templates.

{% for subvolume in subvolumes %} {% set newer_subvolume = subvolume %} {% endfor %}
Owner Name Architecture Version Stream Actions
{{subvolume.domain}} {{subvolume.identifier}} {{subvolume.architecture}} {{subvolume.created}} far tar mft {% if subvolume.signed %}| signature{% endif %} dpkg {% if newer_subvolume %} diff{% endif %}
{% endblock %}