On 4/5/07, Frank Tavenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hello, > I think I have managed to accomplish everything except this piece , the > documentation seems to lacking on the " booting from the network " can you > send me in the right direction. In my limited experience with pxelinux it > seems to want a kernel to load. Otherwise it will just sit there and wait.
I would personally recommend learning how to use PXELINUX. Not knowing how to use it was definitely a barrier preventing me from using Unattended. Let me suggest a clear, quick and easy HOWTO for using PXELINUX to boot a KNOPPIX LiveCD: http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/KNOPPIX_Terminal_Server I believe that once you figure out how to make it work, configuring Unattended network booting will be a breeze. I, for one, went exactly through this process: I figured out how to boot KNOPPIX over the network. Then I had a good idea of how PXELINUX works in general. After that, setting up Unattended was just a matter of putting the right files in the right place, and pointing PXELINUX to them. If it helps, here is the Unattended section from my /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default : ... LABEL unattendedwin KERNEL unattended/kernel APPEND initrd=unattended/initramfs z_user=guest z_pass=guest z_path=//10.1.1.1/win-install ... To install the required files for this config file to work I did: $ cd /tmp $ wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/unattended/unattended-4.6-linuxboot.zip?download $ unzip unattended-4.6-linuxboot.zip $ mkdir /var/lib/tftpboot/unattended/ $ cp unattended-4.6/linuxboot/tftpboot/bzImage /var/lib/tftpboot/unattended/kernel $ cp unattended-4.6/linuxboot/tftpboot/initrd /var/lib/tftpboot/unattended/initramfs That is all as far as PXELINUX configuration goes. -- Libre Software: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
