Thanks for the hints, however, I am trying to learn how to setup an iPXE
boot menu with Debian, some utilities (maybe some .ISO) and possibly
windows.
To be honest, I've only setup a simple PXE server which worked before, but
this seems very much uncharted territory for me.
Pretty hard to find all things I need in one place, and in a readable form
for beginners.
Any suggestions are very appreciated.
Best regards,
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 12:37 AM, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Catalin Soare wrote:
>
> > However, I can still not test to get a file, even with the tftp-hpa
> client
> > on the machine where I'm hosting the VM.
> > Anyway, thank you guys very much! Maybe with time and experiments I'll
> > figure it out :)
>
> I use few virtual and physical machines diskless and they boot via PXE -
> see
> the links below.
>
> 1. You have to configure at least dhcp and nfs properly.
>
> dhcp
>
> host vmware3 {
> hardware ethernet 00:50:............;
> fixed-address 192.168..........;
> option host-name "vmware3";
> filename "pxelinux.0";
> #tftp server
> next-server 192.168.xxx.xxx;
> option
> root-path "192.168.xxx.xxx:/opt/remote/nfsroot/stretch-amd64,retry=3,
> rsize=8192,wsize=8192";
> }
>
> 2. you need to setup the kernel boot parameters
>
> 3. and of course have a usable initram disk image
>
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Diskless_system
> https://www.gadgetdaily.xyz/use-css3-transforms-and-
> transitions-to-create-subtle-image-zooms/
>
>
> good luck
>
>
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Regards,
*Catalin Soare <lolinux.so...@gmail.com>*
