--- In lucknow-lug@yahoogroups.com, "etapas2000" <etapas2000@...> wrote:

Nice work, I would surely give a try very soon. There are other
methods too if you want to do a network installation of any
linux/FreeBSD distribution.

1.)http
2.)ftp
3.)nfs

Did you managed to install windows via network?

Anuj.

>
> I am writing this small tutorial for Installing Linux on network since
> I had a lot of pain to do so so I wish some one might benefit from it
> I have taken Open Suse 10.2
> but the steps would rather be same for most of the distributions
> including windows which can be installed on a network
>
>
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>
>
> depending on the boot sequence configured in the computer's BIOS
> The Preboot Execution Environment (in short PXE) is a protocol that
> enables a computer to be booted on the network.
> PXE is saved in ROM on newer network cards some cheap boards do not
> support it ,
> so before you do all this just check wether your board is capable of
> booting on LAN
>
> To Start with you need
>
> * PXE boot capable machine
> * SUSE DVD or CD or ISO files.
> o dhcp-
> o tftp - to share the boot image
> o syslinux - to supply the boot image (pxelinux.0)
>
> The above said are for all the linux or windows distributions
>
>
> Following commands are to check the TFTP DHCP and NFS in Suse
>
> o yast2-tftp-server - Graphical configurator for a TFTP server
> o yast2-dhcp-server - Graphical configurator for a DHCP server
> o yast2-nfs-server - Graphical configurator for a NFS server.
>
>
>
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> In case you don't have syslinux go to software management and install
> it from your DVD in case of CD it will tell u appropriate CD to use
>
> before doing all this just check that
> DHCP
> TFTP
> NFS
> are installed on your machine
>
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> You will also tell PXELINUX to boot the linux kernel we will copy from
> the openSUSE 10.2 DVD.
> in case u dont have a TFTP directory in / then make it and then issue
> following command
> cp /usr/share/syslinux/pxelinux.0 /tftpboot
>
> then from Suse 10.2 DVD or first CD u can copy kernel images to boot
from
> cp /media/SU1020.001/boot/i386/loader/initrd /tftpboot/
> cp /media/SU1020.001/boot/i386/loader/linux /tftpboot/
>
> Then
> mkdir /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg
> cd /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg
> touch default
> chmod 777 default
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> The boot configuration in the file default should be as follows:
>
>
> default linux
> label linux
> kernel linux
> append initrd=initrd install=nfs://IP Of SUSE TFTP
SERVER/media/SU1020.001
> implicit 0
> display message
> prompt 1
> timeout 1
>
>
> Note in above files I have used /media/SUSE1020.001
> you need the DVD inside the DVDROM for this in case you know how to
> mount the ISO
> you can replace with your own installation directory skip the next
> step if you dont know how to mount an ISO
>
> Skip the following step if you are first time doing network boot
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> mount -t iso9660
> /windows/E/openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-i386-iso/openSUSE-10.2-GM-DVD-i386.iso
> /install -o loop
>
> where /install is the directory where you want to mount the ISO
image and
> then go to NFS server settings share this /install ( int this the ISO
> is already mounted you can check that)
> then go to /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default and here change the entry
> install=nfs://IP of ur TFTP server/directory that has your ISO
> mounted/ (Note / at last is required
>
> and then also you can boot this is a general process
> to create your own boot menu i.e.
> to install Fedora Core 5 ,Debian,Windows at the same time on different
> machines a file called boot.msg can be created and appropriate changes
> can be done but that is so confusing that I am not mentioning here
>
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>
> but with this configuration the dhcp server won't know about the
> existence of the tftp server, so we have to add 2 the next-server and
> filename options. Finally the configuration should look like this:
> configure the DHCP and add the following lines in it
>
> next-server IP of TFTP server;
> filename "pxelinux.0"
>
> option domain-name ;
> mydomainname;;
> ddns-update-style none;
> default-lease-time 14400;
> subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> range 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.254;
> default-lease-time 14400;
> max-lease-time 172800;
> next-server 192.168.0.1;
> filename "pxelinux.0";
> }
>