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Cocoabean
September 11th, 2008, 11:27 PM
Well, I stayed up late into the night getting PXE to boot several live CDs from my 2nd Ubuntu server. The first one easily boots Kubuntu and Ubuntu live CDs useing pxelinux, atftp, and NFS. However, I cannot get the server install CD to boot so I can install server of the LOCAL network. I know how to use the netboot image to install from a remote server, but I would like to boot it just as if I had the CD in the drive. The kernel loads, and I get into the Ubuntu Server keyboard setup, but then when it goes to find the CDROM, it of course cannot find it because the root is an NFS share. Here is my config for pxelinux specifically for the ubuntu server option, does anyone have idea on how i can get it to look for the NFS share instead of the CD. Thanks!
LABEL hardy-server
MENU LABEL Ubuntu Server Hardy Heron
kernel hardyserver/vmlinuz
append root=/dev/nfs boot=install netboot=nfs nfsroot=192.168.0.105:/netboot/ubuntuserver804/mnt initrd=hardyserver/initrd.gz --

Sef
September 12th, 2008, 04:16 AM
Moved to server platform.

promodus
September 12th, 2008, 04:50 PM
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=829482

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

Cocoabean
September 12th, 2008, 06:33 PM
Thanks,

Looks like step 5 of http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=829482 is the magic bullet. I'll try it when I get home from work and post findings for anyone else who may be having this problem