Re: PXE net install question

[Matthew Boeckman <matthewb saepio com>]

> Don't know which documentation you're talking about, but I'll explain
> how my PXE setup works.

/usr/share/doc/pxe-1.0 . In short, setup xinetd for tftp/mtftp, setup 
/etc/pxe.conf, get vmlinuz and initrd in 
/tftpboot/X86PC/UNDI/linux-install/ linux.1 and linux.2

> Do you want to kickstart? Or do you want to interactively answer all the
> anaconda prompts (partitions/packages/etc.)? You don't *need* to
> kickstart - PXE just replaces the floppy or CD as the place to load the
> first stage from.

ok, good, that was my understanding (PXE is boot medium)

> My dhcpd.conf:
>
> next-server		1.2.3.4;
> filename		"/tftpboot/pxelinux.bin";

and here come some more questions! I actually have a seperate DHCP 
server from the PXE server. I understood that PXE gets an IP from DHCP, 
then sends out the PXE request to the broadcast and waits for a response 
from PXE. Is this not the case, thus requiring the entry you have in 
your dhcpd.conf file?

> My /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default:
>
> serial 0,9600
> default ks
> prompt 1
> timeout 30
> label text
>   kernel vmlinuz
>   append initrd=initrd.img text devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192
> label expert
>   kernel vmlinuz
>   append expert initrd=initrd.img devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192
> label ks
>   kernel vmlinuz
>   append ks=nfs:1.2.3.4:/nfsdir initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192

ok, now you and another poster both have referred to 
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default files that are not mentioned anywhere in 
the PXE-1.0 documentation! Now I'm sufficiently nervous that I'm missing 
something important. I might also mention that in my 
/tftpboot/X86PC/UNDI/linux-install directory, there was an existing file 
called linux.0 that is also not referenced in the documentation. file 
says it's a data file, but I had just left it in place.

FWIW all this documentation I keep referring to came with my handy-dandy 
pxe-0.1-24 rpm.