-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:22:43 +0530, "Raj Mathur (राज माथुर)" <r...@linux-delhi.org> said: > Hi,
> Can you suggest a utility or web page instructions for installing a pre- > built Linux disk image over the network? > We have a bare machine with PXE and a server with a Linux disk image. > Need the flow to get this image onto the bare machine's disk. > Regards, I don't know of anything already available with such functionality but it would be cool to build one: 1. On PXE server side, setup a webserver with images 2. Compile a kernel (with all drivers for your target hardware) + an initrd with /sbin/init which sets up network, fdisk/mkfs's the filesystem, "wget -O - http://..../image.tar.xz|xzcat |tar xv" everything as per kernel parameters. Or if you're using 'disk images', then "wget -O - ....|xzcat|dd if=/dev/stdin of=/dev/$device". 3. Create per client pxelinux.cfg configuration (in case client's settings differ from defaults), with something like: linux /vmlinuz append initrd=/initrd.gz network=eth0;static;172.16.0.3/27 img=gentoo-x64 drive=sda It would be really cool to build something like that yourself :). HTH - -- Ashish SHUKLA “I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book.” ("Albert Einstein", "Sidelights on Relativity", 1983) Sent from my Emacs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJQDN9HAAoJEMdGz6nnT6Swa7QQAIiwlEbyOWJcnTPrCEHMKCfM vz4AON8qDpt9XFER9sbZTJM+6+Mptvv3xvIWs7B4dL9QjjcnLqjy7nfl1k7FHLcO vNeNKdzb5lJdFNzLGIUmvOdbZLT4b5+79tkKs6f+opE0D4TZEq6qca+ogwaGCtmy w1E2hyRbRckmGl1sHaDSLKxsMlEk1GTOlhUTTKhZeE2DY8yQlmesDo6J5UGfO7db YqDaktxb8AWfL/SNTDzbqKcK/uNJQBoxQlJ9WYI38AquIanRqBDeInzz5vX26jgI /nhm1m04td3rT0I969BQ0rGUqkaGvtcRKa/r4HO1tRC93k4biO/O4+5uvOisbIew psoJ8IUClHLQTfJYWb/0rpNGgUZqIbi5ZcZiT+Fc3Kq7h4OWA/yb4WhFGAIgD9bw 8/QP618+ztxuk6oAz7nUPDo/hsQNe3RKZzcQmZ8K3ttLvFQSI69Tpyx7hpCgEoEc gp+ShqIARGSBZnqCxhXPyVw31OUGJ3LiEJQwe/W440VtDR19YIH2acRp9WJ2UjyC hLmHT+COkpNTYJ/ZFc4jJr1lgSjjnnULeyirAfJ3yNY4uRUkl5OjCpbuCQQZgwxf iN1I9XQIYF6zxdKbUEZgLzkswNkhtLgJnrCQjYVKMnFPbqdHLV+Wv3hJjFH3R7SP B3+4Dyz1MGJmK4RuV5M8 =0evU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
