On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:15 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 09:30, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > > > > > > > No need to burn the first CD. In the long run, it's much easier to setup > > > > a pxeboot/tftp setup and boot from the network... > > > > > > Is there a way to do this that isn't version-specific? With > > > the CDs I've always had to boot from the exact version > > > that I wanted to install and I normally have several > > > NFS-installable copies on line at once (different fedora's, > > > centos, k12tsp, etc.). And I have a default network boot > > > for ltsp thin clients. Is there a way to set up a network > > > grub boot or something similar that could give a menu for > > > the load wanted? > > > > > > > My bootpxe can install FC3, FC4 (i386/x86_64), FC5 (i386/x86_64) and > > CentOS 4 (x86_64). > > Once you setup the initial bootpxe configuration, you can have it handle > > multiple concurrent configurations. (You'll just need the vmlinuz + > > initrd image for each kernel pair + ISO files) > > How do you control which of those is loaded when you boot a new > client? I'd like to do that at the client side - and have a > timeout/default to load the ltsp thin client instead of an > installer. > Simple: You create a configuration menu under /tftpboot/pxlinux.cfg/default (And a boot message file in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/boot.msg). Once configured, much like lilo, the user can select which kernel (and kernel configuration) he/she wants to load. http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php#config Gilboa
