Network Booting for install

Stuart Sears stuart at sjsears.com
Tue Sep 28 09:04:17 UTC 2004


On Tuesday 28 Sep 2004 03:33, Brian McGrew wrote:
> I have the tftp server defined in my dhcp server, on the tftp server, I
> have vmlinuz and initrd.img in the /tftpboot directory.  That's all the
> setup that I have; am I missing something?
what about the pxelinux.0 file rquired for PXE?
usually found in /usr/lib/syslinux
have you also written the pxelinux config file so that the system knows what 
to do with the kernel when it has fetched it?
>
> -brian
>
> Brian D. McGrew {brian at doubledimension.com || pacemakertaker at rock.com }
> ---
>
> > Failure is not an option; it is included with every Microsoft product.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Edward
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 7:04 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: Network Booting for install
>
> Brian McGrew wrote:
> > Can someone point me to a good how-to on network booting for remote
> > installation.  I'm using a M$ DCHP on Windows 2000 Advanced Server with a
> > TFTP server running on a RH9 box.  I thought I had it setup correctly but
> > when I try and boot a machine I get
> >
> > Node: 0050DAC936F2
> > DHCP..........
> > TFTP..
> > No reply from TFTP server.
> >
> > Network boot aborted.
> > Press a key to reboot system.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -brian
>
> Brian, this is a bit lacking in information. Could you post some of you
> configuration settings so that we may have an idea as to how you've set
> it all up?
>
> Regards,
> Ed.
>
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