Bug#254735: marked as done (PXE/netboot installation: success)
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From: Frans Pop <aragorn@tiscali.nl>
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Subject: PXE/netboot installation: success
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Package: installation-reports
Version: TC1
Triggered by a question on #debian-boot and my own curiosity, I decided to try
and netboot d-i for my Toshiba Satellite A40 laptop using PXE booting.
Here's how I did it.
The documentation (d-i manual) is not quite correct, but the solutions were
fairly easy after combining info from several places
I'll update the relevant parts of the manual.
Preparing the server
====================
I already had dhcp3-server installed on a Woody server in my network.
- installed packages atftpd (tftpd does not work!)
installing atftpd with all options default works
- installed package syslinux
only one file from this package is needed; I purged it after copying that
- create directory /tftpboot (world readable, contents also)
- cp /usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0 /tftpboot
- wget netboot files (initrd.gz, mini.iso, vmlinuz) into /tftpboot
I downloaded the TC1 version
- create file 'default' in new directory /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/ (see below)
- edit /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf (see below)
- boot laptop => d-i starts :-)
That's all!
First installation test
=======================
The installation using only default options (getting both d-i modules and base
system from the network) went perfectly.
Second installation test
========================
I next set up netboot to start d-i at medium priority (nice :-).
I selected cdrom-detect as an extra installer module to load, because I wanted
to see if I could install the base-system from CD-ROM. So I selected 'Detect
and mount CD-ROM' after 'Load installer components'.
After I selected 'Install the base system' it started installation off the
CD-ROM automatically :-).
Note: netboot d-i and the CD have to be compatible; combining TC1 netboot with
sid_d-i CD-ROM results in 'Debbootstrap error: Couldn't download libdb2'.
After switching the CD to the TC1 version, everything worked perfectly again.
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default (last two lines actually on same line)
==============================
LABEL linux
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND load initrd=initrd.gz ramdisk_size=8192 devfs=mount root=/dev/ram \
DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium
Not sure if the 'load' option is necessary...
Addition to /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf (can probably be improved a bit)
=================================
host tftpserver {
fixed-address 10.x.x.x;
hardware ethernet AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF;
}
host pxeclient {
hardware ethernet UU:VV:WW:XX:YY:ZZ;
fixed-address 10.x.x.y;
option host-name "pxeclient";
filename "/tftpboot/pxelinux.0";
next-server tftpserver;
}
Cheers,
FJP
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Thank me for my installation report ;-)
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