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Do you have a working PXE boot setup to install a linux over the network?

Submitted by tonyfreeman on Sun 6 Jun 2010

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Yes - Using HTTP  <-> 12%158 votes
Yes - Using NFS  <-> 13%168 votes
Yes - Using FTP  <-> 7%96 votes
Yes - Using Other  <-> 5%68 votes
No  <-> 44%561 votes
No - Whach You Talkin Bout Willis  <-> 17%217 votes
Total 1268 votes

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Re: Do you have a working PXE boot setup to install a linux over the networ
Posted by ajt (195.112.xx.xx) on Sun 6 Jun 2010 at 16:47
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I don't have a PXE environment at home on my systems, but I have installed it and got it all working once. However the PC I wanted to boot off PXE couldn't be installed over the network as the Ethernet drivers it required weren't in the Debian stable kernel when I tried.

--
"It's Not Magic, It's Work"
Adam

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Re: Do you have a working PXE boot setup to install a linux over the networ
Posted by Anonymous (65.190.xx.xx) on Sun 6 Jun 2010 at 17:28
Caveat: I am serving up pre-seed files via http. As I do a lot of computer hobby stuff, I got tired of burning CDs and when I got my first embedded system, I discovered PXE booting the installations. Best thing since sliced bread. Eventually added recovery and hardware diagnosis tools into the PXE boot options (no more rescue thumb drive or recovery CD). Not all that difficult to set up really. Hardest part is downloading the netboot and putting the the vmlinuz and initrd files onto the server.

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Re: Do you have a working PXE boot setup to install a linux over the networ
Posted by Anonymous (122.177.xx.xx) on Mon 7 Jun 2010 at 09:24
I tried many times on my ubuntu desktop with no success.

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Re: Do you have a working PXE boot setup to install a linux over the networ
Posted by Anonymous (81.134.xx.xx) on Mon 7 Jun 2010 at 09:29
We use rpm distros in work so network installs are handled by using kickstart from cd or usb then http install across the lan. No pxe though.

sno

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Re: Do you have a working PXE boot setup to install a linux over the networ
Posted by Anonymous (98.230.xx.xx) on Fri 11 Jun 2010 at 04:11
I can only seem to get this to work with http even though I've tried multiple times to use nfs. I have a menu set up to install CentOS and Debian testing for both 32 and 64 bit machines.

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Re: Do you have a working PXE boot setup to install a linux over the networ
Posted by tonyfreeman (68.59.xx.xx) on Tue 6 Jul 2010 at 03:35
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I finally discovered my nfs problem. My exports file looked like this:

/data 10.1.10.*(ro)

My wildcard was not doing what I expected ... the correct entry turns out to be:

/data 10.1.10.0/24(ro)

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Re: Do you have a working PXE boot setup to install a linux over the networ
Posted by Anonymous (12.163.xx.xx) on Fri 11 Jun 2010 at 13:48
We pxe boot and load the files from a Windows share, ie CIFS.

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Re: Do you have a working PXE boot setup to install a linux over the networ
Posted by Anonymous (129.252.xx.xx) on Mon 14 Jun 2010 at 20:29
sadly, no :(
I can get pxe to boot properly, even load 2 images (etch from this site's example, and clonezilla), but I cannot get tftp to function-- clonezilla pulls a random 192.168.162.x ip address once it boots its nic drivers, and therefore cannot fetch the required squashed filesys.
I was hoping it would keep most of the pxe ip addressing, but it seems not to.
I also have yet to get memdisk to load anything successfully.

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#10
Re: Do you have a working PXE boot setup to install a linux over the networ
Posted by Anonymous (64.135.xx.xx) on Thu 17 Jun 2010 at 10:49
Try this option in your pxeclients class:
option PXE.mtftp-ip 0.0.0.0;

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#9
Re: Do you have a working PXE boot setup to install a linux over the networ
Posted by simonw (84.45.xx.xx) on Mon 14 Jun 2010 at 22:27
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On the list of things to do, but probably overtaken by the use of images of visualized hosts. Even if I get to creating virtual images automagically I won't need PXE.

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#11
tftp
Posted by jimfrey (209.47.xx.xx) on Tue 22 Jun 2010 at 15:08
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i'm not sure why there is no tftp option, i'm using tftp for the network install, this is the standard for pxe boot, right ?
then http for downloading preseed files and packages.

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#12
Re: Do you have a working PXE boot setup to install a linux over the networ
Posted by Anonymous (193.62.xx.xx) on Wed 30 Jun 2010 at 15:09
We use FAI, which uses PXE, then TFTP, and then NFS for the installation environment. Works a charm, and *much* easier to debug than the preseed approach.

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#13
Re: Do you have a working PXE boot setup to install a linux over the networ
Posted by lykwydchykyn (72.237.xx.xx) on Fri 2 Jul 2010 at 22:29
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Been using one for a couple years now. It does Debian and Ubuntu net installs with my apt-mirror server, various boot CD's, boot floppies, etc. Still haven't figured out how to get Windows discs booted on it, though I've tried a few different how-to's.

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#14
Re: Do you have a working PXE boot setup to install a linux over the networ
Posted by Anonymous (95.79.xx.xx) on Sun 4 Jul 2010 at 07:27
Used more than 8 years so far, for automatic installation of Linux and Windows (many Linux distros - SLES, RHEL, Fedora, Debian), as well as FreeBSD.
HTTP (preferable), NFS, TFTP, CIFS and iSCSI protocols are used.

Recommend to look at Etherboot site for gPXE client. Quite smart replacement for standard network card PXE client - and allows a LOT.

Generally, I'm working in a BIG company, and our network boot infrastructure serving about 60000 servers.

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#16
Re: Do you have a working PXE boot setup? Yes, LinMin Bare Metal
Posted by Anonymous (75.144.xx.xx) on Tue 6 Jul 2010 at 22:02
We use LinMin Bare Metal Provisioning (for Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, SLES, W2K8 and W2K3).
It's nice to have a single "pane of glass" to repurpose any server in our data centers.
We're starting to use LinMin's imaging function now. Very slick, very fast for cloning new servers instead of provisioning them.

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#17
Re: Do you have a working PXE boot setup to install a linux over the networ
Posted by Anonymous (115.111.xx.xx) on Tue 13 Jul 2010 at 07:53
I am trying to do it(Network Install) using a DHCP server, as specified in the Debian Installation manual. Trying, have not succeeded till now :(

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