Re: PXE net install question

[Matthew Boeckman <matthewb saepio com>]

A minor update, for the archives:

On a contiguous network the broadcast finding of the PXE server worked 
fine, without the next-server info on the DHCP box. Having said that, 
the kernel (initrd-everything from 7.3 disks) crashed utterly whenever 
trying to loadup the harddrives:
cramfs: wrong magic
and some FAT errors.  Both initrd images (-everything and normal) had 
the same behavior.

Booting from the 7.3 CD's worked fine.

Unfortunately I didn't have time to grab and setup pxelinux as 
recommended, as this project had a deadline. I will continue to play 
with the RH PXE RPM environment and see if I can duplicate and or solve 
the problem I had.

THanks for all the replies. VERY helpful!

-Matthew

Philip Rowlands wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Matthew Boeckman wrote:
>
>
> > This seems the most likely place to get an answer to my question, so
> > I'll try here first. I've got a PXE server setup per the documentation,
> > with all vmlinuz and initrd images in place.
>
>
> Don't know which documentation you're talking about, but I'll explain
> how my PXE setup works.
>
>
> > What I'm trying to do, is boot a PXE client, and install from it on
> > monitor and keyboard. I have RedHat 7.3 on the PXE server, along with
> > disk 1 and disk 2 exported via nfs. My main question is, do I have to
> > have kickstart files in place as well?
>
>
> 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.
>
> My dhcpd.conf:
>
> next-server		1.2.3.4;
> filename		"/tftpboot/pxelinux.bin";
>
>
> 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
>
> You'd probably want to use "default text".
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
>
>
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