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| 21:36.57 | epaphus | Hello iam just curious, how do I create an image to serve of PXE ? |
| 22:08.31 | epaphus | If I have a LIVE cd in an ISO.. is it necessary to do some modifications in its source code for it to be served on PXE ? |
| 22:13.47 | ScytheBlade1 | You can't network boot an ISO |
| 22:13.55 | ScytheBlade1 | (unless you want to put the ASM together to do so) |
| 23:30.06 | epaphus | ScytheBlade1, well then what kind of image do i need to built so that PXE client understands it? |
| 23:31.01 | ScytheBlade1 | PXE doesn't understand the concept of images |
| 23:31.08 | ScytheBlade1 | What PXE does understand, is grabbing a single file and then executing it |
| 23:31.49 | ScytheBlade1 | You need to look into imaging software that supports starting via PXE |
| 23:34.05 | epaphus | ScytheBlade1, sounds like i need to read more, can you point me to a good resource..? |
| 23:34.18 | ScytheBlade1 | Well, what are you trying to do? |
| 23:34.35 | epaphus | I want to boot an Operating System by PXE. |
| 23:34.41 | ScytheBlade1 | Which? |
| 23:35.03 | epaphus | a custom one iam putting together based on Ubuntu. |
| 23:35.32 | ScytheBlade1 | I take it you can compile a kernel then, yes? |
| 23:36.23 | epaphus | ScytheBlade1, yes |
| 23:38.15 | ScytheBlade1 | Take a read at Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt and optionally Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt in the kernel source tree |
| 23:39.14 | ScytheBlade1 | If running these off of NFS is not possible, then your options are loading the entire thing into RAM |
| 23:39.23 | ScytheBlade1 | Or writing your own software to install it to disk |
| 23:40.12 | ScytheBlade1 | (or another imaging solution) |
| 23:41.00 | epaphus | i need to load it to RAM (the entire thing) this is the best choice for me anyways :) |
| 23:41.52 | ScytheBlade1 | Then I would really recommend reading the second file I mentioned instead of the first |
| 23:41.56 | ScytheBlade1 | And reading up on pxelinux |
| 23:42.08 | epaphus | ok thank you. |