Setting up a pxe server

Software needed

Tftp

Pxe

Dhcpd

Dhcpd will be the most important file that you will need to configure this is the dhcpd.conf

This is a very generic setup. It will allow you to boot a client from this pxe server with images or a dos boot disk with the memdisk option.

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allow booting;

allow bootp; //needed for pxe to boot

ddns-update-style ad-hoc; //only for dhcpd 1.3 and above

DHCPD_INTERFACE = "eth1"; //you must identify the port

subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 {

option subnet-mask 255.0.0.0;

option domain-name-servers 10.0.0.1;

option bootfile-name "pxelinux.0";

range dynamic-bootp 10.0.0.10 10.0.0.100;

}

group

{

next-server 10.10.1.1;

filename "/tftpboot/pxelinux.0"; //the directory were pxelinux.0 needs to be

option bootfile-name "pxelinux.0";

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Tftp will hand the initial boot kernel and ip address. Make sure that you have your /tftpboot/pxelinux.0 file in /tftpboot or where ever you choose to put it but dhcpd.conf needs to know where that is

And inside /tfpboot/ you need to make a sysconfig file

I have /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/syslinux.cfg

Example syslinux.cfg file

default linux

prompt 1

timeout 600

display boot.msg

label lucifer

kernel memdisk

append initrd=lucifer.img

label 98se

kernel memdisk

append initrd=98se.img

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Boot message example

more ../rhat9/boot.msg

- To install or upgrade 02Red Hat07 Linux in graphical mode,

press the 0f<ENTER>07 key.

to install suse 9.1 suse (install dir) = /images/suse/cdrom/

to boot windows 98 boot win98

to install rhat 9.0 enter (install dir) = /images/

to install rhat 3.0 rhat30 (install dir) = /images/rhat30

to install fedora core 2 fedora (install dir) = /images/fedora

to run memtest memtest

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