Hi Voipcrazy, On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 18:05 +0100, voip crazy wrote: > Dear list, > > Five days ago, I started to try boot my soekris, vía PXE, without > success, my soekris get an IP address and It stop to boot. > I do not know why It is doing that, I search google, and find some > links but all of them fails to boot. > I want to install Debian on it an my soekris is 5501 model. > > http://roland.entierement.nu/pages/debian-on-soekris-howto.html > > Someone, could send me the TFTP files you use to boot a debian > instalation? > Or explain me where to get the Debian netboot.tar.gz, to boot the > soekris 5501?
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/ Select the right distrib dir of course.. You'll also need the matching pxelinux.0 sitting next to it. I've run it succesfully as follows: # mkdir /tftpboot # tar xzvpf netboot.tar.gz # mv debian-installer/i386/* /tftpboot I run tftpd-hpa as a standalone daemon: ------------------------------------------------------ #/etc/default/tftpd-hpa #Defaults for tftpd-hpa RUN_DAEMON="yes" #OPTIONS="-l -s /var/lib/tftpboot" OPTIONS="-l -s /tftpboot" ------------------------------------------------------ You may have to add an entry to /etc/hosts.allow: ------------------------------------------------------ # /etc/hosts.allow in.tftpd: LOCAL 192.168.1. : allow ------------------------------------------------------ Or something similar... I never managed to get it work through inetd with Ubuntu/Debian GNU/Linux. Of course no-one will stop you from running it from /var/lib/tftpboot, but I don't like having persistent files under /var (while many others abhor having non-FSSTND stuff inside "/" - whatever..). My PXE config looks like this: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- # /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default SERIAL 0 19200 0 DISPLAY boot.txt DEFAULT linux LABEL linux kernel linux append vga=normal initrd=initrd.gz console=ttyS0,19200n8 ramdisk_size=14332 root=/dev/rd/0 rw -- PROMPT 1 TIMEOUT 0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Common trouble: - missing hosts.allow entry (I'm not sure if a standalone tftpd actually requires one, but it's always safe) - there is any firewall running on the TFTP server blocking TFTP - wrong "next-server" in dhcpd.conf - files under /tftpboot aren't world-readable (0644 root.root) (on Debian, 'tftpd' runs as user "nobody" I think). That should get you going. Bill > Thanks in advance. > > Best Regards. > > VoipCrazy. > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- "What's a computer?" - MES _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
