Re: PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-19 Thread Alok G. Singh
Thanks for all the helpful links and advice. I finally just made the router relay DHCP requests and setup a dhcp3 server which allows me to do everything. -- Alok -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-19 Thread Nuno Magalhães
[Emanoil, sorry for the duplication] Hi, just quick-read this thread. I did this recently on my home lan, following this article[1]. A few notes: - tftpd runs through inetd, good to know when troubleshooting (i ran mine standalone); - it's obvious, but open port 69 on your firewall; - you can un

Re: PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-19 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Steven Demetrius wrote: there's a pretty good howto on tldp.org, that I've followed and it work perfectly. there are other howto's on the net and I read once one describing setup for the goal described here. I.e. download debian iso image, configure pxe boot, setup dhcp, nfs server etc If you'r

Re: PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-16 Thread Steven Demetrius
Alok G. Singh wrote: What I want to do is to deploy a dhcp+tftp server in the network that people can boot into debian-installer via PXE. The idea is to have an easy way to install Debian/Ubuntu without having to cart DVDs around. The DHCP server running on the router assigns addresses in the

Re: PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-16 Thread Jesús M. Navarro
Hi, Alok: On Thursday 16 April 2009 10:56:21 Alok G. Singh wrote: > What I want to do is to deploy a dhcp+tftp server in the network that > people can boot into debian-installer via PXE. The idea is to have an > easy way to install Debian/Ubuntu without having to cart DVDs > around. > > The DHCP s

Re: PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-16 Thread Alok G. Singh
Eric Gerlach wrote: >> I don't think there is, strictly speaking, a difference. But, a DHCP >> client on a booted system will just ignore all the netboot >> information in the response. So, generally you just run one DHCP >> server that gives everyone the netboot information and there's little >

Re: PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-16 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:39:01AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <871vrtasei@klein.localdomain>, Alok G. Singh wrote: > >The DHCP server running on the router assigns addresses in the > >192.168.1.0/24 subnet. I have setup another DHCP server to respond to > >PXE in the same subnet.

Re: PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-16 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <871vrtasei@klein.localdomain>, Alok G. Singh wrote: >The DHCP server running on the router assigns addresses in the >192.168.1.0/24 subnet. I have setup another DHCP server to respond to >PXE in the same subnet. Now, how do I make sure the two DHCP servers >play nice together ? That is, the

PXE boot debian-installer

2009-04-16 Thread Alok G. Singh
What I want to do is to deploy a dhcp+tftp server in the network that people can boot into debian-installer via PXE. The idea is to have an easy way to install Debian/Ubuntu without having to cart DVDs around. The DHCP server running on the router assigns addresses in the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. I