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


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  • From: "Kevin Crowley" <caohaoim AT gmail.com>
  • To: mlug-list AT mail.milwaukeelug.org
  • Subject: Re: [MLUG] network boothing (was Burning ISO)
  • Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:36:05 -0500
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I personally would love to see a presentation on that.  I haven't gotten it to work since I did it in 2000.

Kevin

On 10/18/07, Darrick Hartman <lugs_darrick AT djhsolutions.com> wrote:
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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