PXE tftp dhcp server setup

PXE boot server setup

Just an outline of what was done to set up the pxe boot server. Still a work in progress.

Loosely based on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PXEInstallMultiDistro and http://www.techienote.com/2010/11/pxe-boot-server-on-ubuntu.html

• installed ubuntu 12.04 on the machine (anakin in our case).

• configure the network with static ip.

• install packages:

  • tftpd-hpa (tftp server, for serving up boot images)
  • dhcp3-server (dhcp server)
  • syslinux (boot loader)

• edit /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf, adding the following lines.

  allow booting; allow bootp; subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 10.0.0.11 10.0.0.200 filename "/pxelinux.0" }

• copy boot files to tftp directory:

  cp /usr/lib/syslinux/pxelinux.0 /var/lib/tftpboot/ cp /usr/lib/syslinux/menu.c32 /var/lib/tftpboot/ cp /usr/lib/syslinux/memdisk /var/lib/tftpboot/ cp /usr/lib/syslinux/mboot.c32 /var/lib/tftpboot/ cp /usr/lib/syslinux/chain.c32 /var/lib/tftpboot/