so you're saying I should just be able to put the live cd in one of my machines, then use a network boot over the lan
On 16 September 2010 14:30, Jim Price <d1vers...@hotmail.com> wrote: > On 16/09/10 08:24, Neil Greenwood wrote: > > On 15 September 2010 19:44, Jacob Mansfield<cyberja...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> surely I could just put the live CD onto my working ubuntu desktop and > do a > >> PXE boot to it > >> > > > > You would need to set up the infrastructure that will supply the PXE > > boot information to the netbook. > > > > I've not done this, but I think you need: > > - a DHCP server > > - a TFTP server > > - an NFS or HTTP server > > - a boot kernel and initrd that will let the netbook connect to the > > NFS or HTTP server > > > > You would then need configuration to supply the PXE information to the > > netbook when it makes the DHCP request, and share the CD, and point > > the boot kernel/initrd to the shared CD, and... > > I found the easiest way to get something to PXE boot was to boot the > Edubuntu DVD on another machine on the network. It has the ability to > boot remote hosts from itself, but I can't remember if what you get > after you've booted has the installer software on it. I would think it > does. There was one bug I hit which was easy to fix - it picks up the > wrong network device name if you use it from a machine with only one > network port. Putting eth0 in the config sorted that. I was just using > it to demonstrate the sort of thing you can do with Ubuntu, and I have > to say it did impress those who saw it boot one machine from one of > their other machines without me installing any software. > > -- > JimP > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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