Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Master_wrong · Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 455

edit-18-march-2011 -solved using this link -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64107

Hi,

I'm figuring out howto create pxe capable puppy....
i just found this.... http://rom-o-matic.net/
can this be used ?

http://etherboot.org/wiki/syslinux

thank

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843

I think you are limited to their kernels, but you can do it manually

I would recommend a stepped approach:

Start with Pup'ngo (only about 5MB)
shift internet setup into the initramfs
download the sfs into ram/disk/usb etc... or mount it directly over nfs/samba/etc...
continue as normal

Once that is working you can setup the pxe parts
Get the corresponding kernel source from http://bkhome.org/sources/ (puppy:linux as user:password)
recompile it with the initramfs (in the initrd.gz) included in the kernel image (you may need to modify a couple of settings for pxe??)

There is also a thread here that explains how to include the sfs files in the initramfs ... that way it would only be one file to load (but use lots of ram)

MagicZaurus · Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 88

As far as I understand gPXE is a PXE bootloader with more features compared to the usual PXE bootloaders inside the network cards. For example it allows loading over HTTP which is supposed to be faster than TFTP.

Still I think it is easier for a start to get a Puppy booting via the standard PXE.

Slitaz Linux is using gPXE for their webbooting. You can take a look there. They have gPXE on a boot CD and then the main image is loaded over the internet from a webserver.

Master_wrong · Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 455

Hi

Thank guys for the explanation but i think this pxe is bit too much difficult for me...
i will learn more then....

magicsaurus, technosaurus..... is there by any chance that you two are related.... ??? Laughing

fred777 · Joined: 08 Jan 2011 Posts: 4

Hi master,

try this: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=426299&search_id=1059481267#426299 with puppy 5.1, works like a charm.

regards,
fred

Master_wrong · Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 455

Thank fred

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

Raffy's the PXE man....

http://minipc.org/pup/index.php?file=Net-booting%20pioneer.htm

Aitch Smile

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

Thanks, Aitch, but fred777's URL (esp. its page 1) is already an excellent starting point.

Master_wrong · Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 455

ok
i found few more reading material...
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/478
http://linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/pxeboot.html

so i assume we need dhcpd-server ad tftp

but in this
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=23615
use pxe from cent-os i assume there is no need to supply those 2 files ?

maybe i should try hpc-pelican,

they were live-cd and pxe... just like puppy, you know maybe we can learn one thing or two
http://idea.uab.es/mcreel/PelicanHPC/

MagicZaurus · Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 88

You always need a DHCP server and a TFTP server on your network if you want to do pure netbooting. The network card need to request an IP address from the DHCP server and the TFTP server needs to provide the OS or at least another bootloader, which then boots the OS.

On Puppy the easiest is to use DNSMASQ as it provides both, a DHCP & TFTP sever.

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 3843

Master_wrong · Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 455

Master_wrong · Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 455

ok, i found another howto...
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=62308

jrb · Posted: Tue 11 Jan 2011, 15:23 Post subject:

I have been pxe booting various puppies with MagicZaurus and ecomoney's dnsmasq-2.46-i486-v0.2.pet installed on my pupserver-435.iso. On the whole it is working very well but has required some special accomodations.

First I changed /root/tftpboot/Start-Netboot.sh to:

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2625 Location: Earth

@jrb Good information.