RE: desparately trying to get pxe-boot version of pxes working...

I think that's the problem... the docs say I could use the "PREBUILT" images
- but it doesn't say which ones... I don't have a Linux box set up - could
do that I guess - have to get some spare hardware or another hard drive
organized.

http://pxes.sourceforge.net/howtos/ms_only_environment/index.html

mentioned using pre-built images several times.

It sounds like I can do my config overrides by TFTP, so do I really need to
build my own images?

Are there some for download somewhere? Ideally I don't want to hold this
experiment up while I look for available hardware and build linux (We're a
BSD shop here...)

Thanks again!

m/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig FALCONER [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: June 28, 2005 9:05 PM
> To: 'Mitch (WebCob)'
> Subject: RE: [pxes-devel] desparately trying to get pxe-boot version of
> pxes working...
> 
> See if this helps.
> 
> The client knows to download the kernel and initrd etc from the same place
> that pxelinux.0 comes from.
> 
> To get it, you need to install the pxes stuff on a linux box, and make the
> initrd file and so on.
> 
> Does that help?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mitch (WebCob) [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 29 June 2005 3:44 p.m.
> To: 'Craig FALCONER'; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [pxes-devel] desparately trying to get pxe-boot version of
> pxes
> working...
> 
> 
> > Sounds to me like you are missing the special DHCP options lines.
> >
> > You need options
> > 043	Vender Specific Info		01 04 00 00 00 00
> > 	I don't remember what this was, but it was needed for pxes 0.8  The
> > need may have gone though.
> > 060	ClassID				PXEClient
> > 066	Boot Server Host Name		192.168.x.x
> > 	This needs to be the IP of the TFTP server.  Note Windows DHCP
> server
> > sets this to itself regardless!
> > 067	Bootfile Name			pxes/pxelinux.0
> > 	All the files need to be in this directory.  For me this is
> > c:\tftpboot\pxes\
> >
> > Screenshots can be provided if necessary.  If your DHCP server is
> > something else, then you'll need to read the docs to find out how to
> > put these options
> > in.
> >
> [Mitch says:] Awesome Craig - thanks for the reply...
> 
> Where does the squash file come into play?
> Where does pxes/pxelinux.0 come from? It doesn't seem to be in the 1.0
> 
> In 0.8 there was an initrd, iso, nbi & squash...
> 
> That initrd file doesn't seem to be available for any of the newer
> versions,
> and unless I missed it, the doc doesn't specify what to do with it or
> where
> to get it?
> 
> I was looking in pxes-tftp-1.0-6.zip and trying to figure out how I boot
> from the squash (which the docs say is pxe-boot related - they just don't
> go
> futher at the moment...)
> 
> Thanks for any help you can give - I'm standing by in case you are still
> there.
> 
> At my present location I've got dhcpd / tftp on unix, but I think I'd be
> fine if I had the right source files - I'm missing the boot loader and so
> on...
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> m/



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