On Wednesday 02 February 2005 13:07, Lanman wrote:
>
> So, I guess the next question is how can I accomplish this? I'm finding
> a lot of info on how to configure PXE, but none of it seems to have a
> clear (ie; Plan English) explanation on how to do it step-by-step, and
> nothing I've found shows me how to launch an install command in the
> process.
>
> Any help you might be able to offer would be greatly appreciated.
My brain cells take a while to get going. I have now remembered how to create
a bootable image for use with PXElinux.
1/ Configure dhcp server to ask for PXELinux with
host myth {
hardware ethernet 00:40:63:D8:B8:65;
fixed-address 192.168.1.55;
filename "pxelinux.0";
}
2/ Put pxelinux.0 (from SYSLINUX web page) on tftp server.
Create a subdirectory called pxelinux.cfg In there create a text file called
'default' containing for example
PROMPT 1
DEFAULT stable
DISPLAY messages
TIMEOUT 5
label stable
KERNEL linux-dj2
APPEND initrd=rootfs-dj2 ramdisk_blocksize=4096 ramdisk=4000
where linux-dj2 is a kernel containing at least enough drivers to work the
Ethernet and rootfs-dj2 is a cram file system containing an image of your OS.
PXELinux will run the cramfile system in memory so it cannot be a huge image.
If you need to install a large image you should use the small image to
install the larger one, and then 'pivot_root' to start executing the large
image.
3/ To make the OS image set up a directory containing the entire file system
of the image you want to create and run
'mkcramfs root_dir image_name'
Do not use Mandrake's version of mkcramfs It is broken. Use this one.
http://www.jennings.homelinux.net/downloads/mkcramfs
Hope that all understandable.
derek
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