Re: Diskless boot?

Hi Remco,

Here's the short version:
- normal tftp server and syslinux (pxelinux.0) is all you really need;
probably, the pxelinux docs would be a good place to go
- dchp needs to tell the pxe client the 'next-server' ip address, the
the 'filename' to load; the tftp path to pxelinux.0
- pxelinux.0, once it loads, will look for a config file which will
instruct it where to load the kernel & initrd.
- the initrd needs enough brains to load something else via nfs, etc.

I do pretty heavy thin client & embedded appliance type work, so I use
Tao Linux for serving PXE clients quite often.  Right now I'm working on
a fairly generic, and hopefully powerful, initrd generator for booting
from a wide variety of media, including network.  The only hitch here is
you might need to get the kernel versions to match.  If you're
interested, join the tao-tc mailing list (taolinux.org/tao-tc), where
I'll post something with the next version of Tao-TC - now ThinTao.

regards,
	David

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 07:24, Remco Barendse wrote:
> Hi list!
> 
> Has anyone successfully set-up a PXE server on Tao to setup diskless 
> clients? There is an excellent description on how to setup PXE 
> installation for new redhat boxes in the redhat documentation.
> 
> I would like to setup other boot sources as well like:
> - Knoppix
> - Windows installation cd
> - Linux system rescue cd (like www.sysresccd.org)
> etc.
> 
> These are all bootable cd-rom iso's and they will probably require a 
> different approach?
> 
> Thanks for any input!
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