PXE boot disks

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at iesabroad.org
Wed Jun 15 15:30:26 UTC 2005


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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of M A Young
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:05 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: PXE boot disks
> 
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, MW Mike Weiner (5028) wrote:
> 
> > A somewhat silly question, but how does one go about creating a PXE 
> > boot disk from the /images/pxeboot files since there is no 
> .img to DD 
> > to the floppy? Can anyone give me some pointers?
> 
> You don't. A pxe enabled network card is told by the DHCP 
> server to download the pxelinux.0 file (part of the syslinux 
> package) which runs and downloads a configuration file and 
> gives a boot menu, so you don't need a floppy.
> 
> 	Michael Young
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If you are looking to do a network install there are a number of kernel
params you can pass.  When you insert the bootable CD try running this:

linux method=http://location/to/your/repo ip=yourip netmask=yournetmask
gateway=yourgateway dns=yourdns

Method also supports nfs, ftp, a local hard drive, and cdrom.   For more
info on this check out:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/printthread.php?t=25826

	-Mike





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