[mdlug] Booting CD images from a hard drive partition

[Wojtak, Greg]

I had a similar set up.  Being the lazy person I am, I had gotten it to the point where I could rack and cable up the server, power it on, then by the time I walked from the datacenter to my desk, the server would be installed and sitting at a prompt for me to ssh into it.

PXE + NFS Install + Kickstart = WIN


-----Original Message-----
From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Carl T. Miller
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 6:23 AM
To: MDLUG's Main discussion list
Subject: Re: [mdlug] Booting CD images from a hard drive partition

Jeff Hanson wrote:
> I've never tried that. On my network I have a server with the ISO
> images mounted.  I netboot with PXELinux from a TFTP server.  It then
> loads my custom ubuntu-installer menus where I can select from several
> different Ubuntu ISOs, Mandriva, Knoppix, DSL, and Parted Magic (the
> latter two from huge initrds instead of ISOs).  The ISOs are accessed
> over NFS.  For installations I have some basic kickstart configs for
> Ubuntu which set some defaults for the "alternate" installers.  Works
> pretty good with systems that can netboot.  Been meaning to document
> this mess.

Yes, please do!  A couple of years ago I set up a network
booting environment that let me install Debian without needing
a boot floppy or cd.  I had the menu set up to boot normally
as defined in the BIOS or with the Debian installer image.  I
wasn't able to figure out how to add iso images to the mix.

c


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