DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: PXE booting DSL



Hi,

I've made some, limited, progress on this myself.   All I want to do is provide a non-default /opt/bootlocal.sh to my pxe booted DSL systems.

I've looked at the "pxedsl.sh" script and, just after the KNOPPIX image is copied into the "/cdrom" folder added a "read" to pause the script.  At this point when the script is running I've switched to another session and tried these two things :

1) changed the symlink for the "/opt" directory to link to a writetable exact copy of the previous one and then editted "bootlocal.sh" appropriately.  

or

2) made a "backup.tar.gz" containing the "/opt/bootlocal.sh" and copied it to the root of the "initrd" filesystem

However neither of them seem to do as i'd hope.  When booting via 1) my changed bootlocal.sh simply doesn't exist on my clients, yet i've verified it's existence in the "minirt24.gz" file (by extracting it and mounting it. Method 2) does successfully place the "backup.tar.gz" on to my PXE booted client (in the root directory), but isn't being extracted.  After reading the remastering document I hoped I could just copy a ".tar.gz" to the root filesystem and it would be extracted for me....

Can someone help me out here?
Thanks,
Steve
Great idea.

I installed tftp32 and downloaded zip and copied files in tftp32root folder and set dhcp server in tftp32.
When I boot from 2 different computers with pxe network card I get an error message the the NBP is too large to fit into memory.

Does it mean the etherbbot.nbi is too large or the minirt24.gz?
Does anybody know how to work around it.

Does anybody know how fast DSL starts over a 1000MBIT network connection?

I hope the PXE functionality will be included in the DSL standard distribution.
Quote (Guest @ Oct. 17 2005,12:26)
Great idea.

I installed tftp32 and downloaded zip and copied files in tftp32root folder and set dhcp server in tftp32.
When I boot from 2 different computers with pxe network card I get an error message the the NBP is too large to fit into memory.

Does it mean the etherbbot.nbi is too large or the minirt24.gz?
Does anybody know how to work around it.

Does anybody know how fast DSL starts over a 1000MBIT network connection?

I hope the PXE functionality will be included in the DSL standard distribution.

When booting via PXE you have to load pxelinux.0 (the file etherboot.nbi is for booting via etherboot).

Regards,
Matt
I set the pxelinux.0 as Boot File.
Now the computer load that file, but stop when
TRYING TO LOAD PXELINUX.CFG
cannot find kernal image:linux
mattias: Any progress on a HD install setup?

Live-CD is great for portability, rescue, or trying a distro, but not for a permanant network setup, too slow & unchangeable.

A CD image copied to the HD for installing the base system as a starting point is a good idea, other packages etc. can be added after that.
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