Setting Up A PXE Install Server For Multiple Linux Distributions With Ubuntu Edgy Eft - Page 5

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8 Add Debian Etch Netboot

Next we download the Debian Etch netboot files and put them in /var/lib/tftpboot/debian/etch like this:

cd /tmp
lftp -c "open http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/etch/main/installer-i386/current/images/; mirror netboot/"
cd netboot/
mv debian-installer/ etch
mv etch /var/lib/tftpboot/debian/

(You can download the files from any other Debian mirror as well. Use one that is close to you.)

Then open pxelinux.cfg/default again as described in chapter 6, copy the LABEL stanzas, modify them, and add them to /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default. /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default should now look like this:

vi /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

DISPLAY boot.txt

DEFAULT edgy_i386_install

LABEL edgy_i386_install
        kernel ubuntu/edgy/i386/linux
        append vga=normal initrd=ubuntu/edgy/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16417 root=/dev/ram rw  --
LABEL edgy_i386_linux
        kernel ubuntu/edgy/i386/linux
        append vga=normal initrd=ubuntu/edgy/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16417 root=/dev/ram rw  --
LABEL edgy_i386_server
        kernel ubuntu/edgy/i386/linux
        append base-installer/kernel/linux/extra-packages-2.6= pkgsel/install-pattern=~t^ubuntu-standard$ pkgsel/language-pack-patterns= pkgsel/install-language-support=false vga=normal initrd=ubuntu/edgy/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16417 root=/dev/ram rw  --

LABEL edgy_i386_expert
        kernel ubuntu/edgy/i386/linux
        append priority=low vga=normal initrd=ubuntu/edgy/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16417 root=/dev/ram rw  --
LABEL edgy_i386_server-expert
        kernel ubuntu/edgy/i386/linux
        append base-installer/kernel/linux/extra-packages-2.6= pkgsel/install-pattern=~t^ubuntu-standard$ pkgsel/language-pack-patterns= pkgsel/install-language-support=false priority=low vga=normal initrd=ubuntu/edgy/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16417 root=/dev/ram rw  --

LABEL edgy_i386_rescue
        kernel ubuntu/edgy/i386/linux
        append vga=normal initrd=ubuntu/edgy/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=16417 root=/dev/ram rw  rescue/enable=true --

LABEL dapper_i386_install
        kernel ubuntu/dapper/i386/linux
        append vga=normal initrd=ubuntu/dapper/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=14332 root=/dev/rd/0 rw  --
LABEL dapper_i386_linux
        kernel ubuntu/dapper/i386/linux
        append vga=normal initrd=ubuntu/dapper/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=14332 root=/dev/rd/0 rw  --
LABEL dapper_i386_server
        kernel ubuntu/dapper/i386/linux
        append base-installer/kernel/linux/extra-packages-2.6= pkgsel/install-pattern=~t^ubuntu-standard$ pkgsel/language-pack-patterns= pkgsel/install-language-support=false vga=normal initrd=ubuntu/dapper/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=14332 root=/dev/rd/0 rw  --

LABEL dapper_i386_expert
        kernel ubuntu/dapper/i386/linux
        append DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low vga=normal initrd=ubuntu/dapper/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=14332 root=/dev/rd/0 rw  --
LABEL dapper_i386_server-expert
        kernel ubuntu/dapper/i386/linux
        append base-installer/kernel/linux/extra-packages-2.6= pkgsel/install-pattern=~t^ubuntu-standard$ pkgsel/language-pack-patterns= pkgsel/install-language-support=false DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low vga=normal initrd=ubuntu/dapper/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=14332 root=/dev/rd/0 rw  --

LABEL dapper_i386_rescue
        kernel ubuntu/dapper/i386/linux
        append vga=normal initrd=ubuntu/dapper/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=14332 root=/dev/rd/0 rw  rescue/enable=true --

LABEL sarge_i386_linux
        kernel debian/sarge/i386/linux
        append vga=normal initrd=debian/sarge/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=9458 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw  --
LABEL sarge_i386_expert
        kernel debian/sarge/i386/linux
        append DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low vga=normal initrd=debian/sarge/i386/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=9458 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw  --
LABEL sarge_i386_linux26
        kernel debian/sarge/i386/2.6/linux
        append vga=normal initrd=debian/sarge/i386/2.6/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=10938 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw  --
LABEL sarge_i386_expert26
        kernel debian/sarge/i386/2.6/linux
        append DEBCONF_PRIORITY=low vga=normal initrd=debian/sarge/i386/2.6/initrd.gz ramdisk_size=10938 root=/dev/rd/0 devfs=mount,dall rw  --

LABEL etch_i386_install
        kernel debian/etch/i386/linux
        append vga=normal initrd=debian/etch/i386/initrd.gz  --
LABEL etch_i386_linux
        kernel debian/etch/i386/linux
        append vga=normal initrd=debian/etch/i386/initrd.gz  --

LABEL etch_i386_expert
        kernel debian/etch/i386/linux
        append priority=low vga=normal initrd=debian/etch/i386/initrd.gz  --

LABEL etch_i386_rescue
        kernel debian/etch/i386/linux
        append vga=normal initrd=debian/etch/i386/initrd.gz  rescue/enable=true --

LABEL etch_i386_auto
        kernel debian/etch/i386/linux
        append auto=true priority=critical vga=normal initrd=debian/etch/i386/initrd.gz  --

PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 0

Delete /tmp/netboot:

cd /tmp/
rm -fr netboot/

and add the new installation options to /var/lib/tftpboot/boot.txt:

vi /var/lib/tftpboot/boot.txt

Available Boot Options:
=======================
edgy_i386_install      edgy_i386_linux                edgy_i386_server
edgy_i386_expert       edgy_i386_server-expert        edgy_i386_rescue
dapper_i386_install    dapper_i386_linux              dapper_i386_server
dapper_i386_expert     dapper_i386_server-expert      dapper_i386_rescue
sarge_i386_linux       sarge_i386_expert              sarge_i386_linux26
sarge_i386_expert26    etch_i386_install              etch_i386_linux
etch_i386_expert       etch_i386_rescue               etch_i386_auto
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