On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Timothy Murphy wrote:
No.
I saw some mention of cobbler, but I didn't pursue it,
as I didn't see any clear description of what it did.
I spent some time - maybe 4 hours - trying to get PXEboot to work.
But I didn't succeed.
The nearest I got ended with the error above.
I was rather disappointed with PXEboot.
There didn't seem any recent documentation,
and much of the documentation there was seemed to me ambiguous,
or else it assumed knowledge I didn't have.
The PXEboot instructions in the Fedora-8 Installation Guide
seemed to me completely useless.
I wasn't convinced the person who wrote them
had ever actually tried what he was describing.
My client laptop, and the tftp server seemed to work perfectly -
it was after that, while actually trying to install Fedora-8,
that the problems arose.
--
Timothy Murphy
It is no small task to setup PXE booting on your network, it takes
cooperation between the DHCP/BOOTP server, the TFTP server, and for
Fedora a http or ftp server.
I have used PXELinux (http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php). I havn't read
any PXE instructions from the Fedora-8 Installation Guide, and if you are
following this article I can understand your confusion
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/NetworkInstall
I use a file at:
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
That has these lines:
prompt 1
timeout 20
label linux-f8
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img
The vmlinuz and initrd.img are found on the dvd in the pxe directory, and
they are in the /tftpboot directory.
This setup is unlike the installation process that is documented
in the Fedora-8 Guide.
ed
