Re: [MLUG] network boothing (was Burning ISO)

[Darrick Hartman <lugs_darrick AT djhsolutions.com>]

Tim Bertram wrote:
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> I'd be interested in this, I've wanted to do something like this in the
> past.  I'm mostly interested in what OS your netbooting.  That was where
> I got stuck.
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> - -Tim
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> Jonathan Kline wrote:
> > Mount the dvd iso as a loopback device. Export the loopback mounted
> > over NFS, and netboot your clients and point them to your NFS server
> > (you should be able to have dhcp assign all of the relevant netboot
> > stuff)... and if you really want all of the gory details how to set
> > this up, ask.... it's another option though....

Tim,

Sometime over the winter I should be able to do a presentation on 
network booting several simple images at a FDLLUG meeting.  I briefly 
discussed this at Barcamp last weekend.  We utilized 4 thin clients in 
various areas as web browser "kiosks".  All 4 machines network booted, 
grabbing their images over pxe from a tftp server.  The cool thing is 
you can have a different image available for each PC (based on MAC 
address).

Instead of setting up a separate dhcp and tftp server, I used dnsmasq 
which can handle both functions.

Darrick
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