[wplug] Wplug PXE server

Moshe Hyzon mokatz at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 14:30:04 EDT 2011


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Take a look at cobbler:

https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler/

Hosts Red Hat/Fedora and derivatives

also Debian/Ubuntu and SUSE derivatives.

It is SUUUUPER slick.  Can also host stuff like memtest86+, DBAN, even
*erp* windows if you are sneaky.

I actually work with one of the main devs on the project.

Moshe

On 06/16/2011 01:55 PM, Terence J. Golightly wrote:
> Greetings List,
> 
> A project has been eating at me has come to partial fruition:
> 
> An InstallFest PXE server.
> 
> 
> I now have a donor pc courtesy of Beth Lynn Eicher.
> 
> It is an AMD Athlon 32bit processor with a 500GB HD. It has a CD rom
> drive. (Anybody like to donate a dvd/rw)?  An extra hard would be nice
> as well.  The more disk space I can shove into this baby the better:D.
> 
> Now I have it partially setup:
> 
> / -- 20 GB
> /home -- 10 GB
> /media/shared 450+GB
> 
> Ubuntu 10.04 desktop installed
> 
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PXEInstallMultiDistro
> 
> This will allow us to satisfy potential users as to our ability to get
> an install on their computers
> 
> I have tftp and dhcp installed (not configured).
> 
> I would like this server be easy to use and configure.  However, this
> machine will be picked up and taken to a different site (wherever an
> InstallFest may be).  What might be a good way to set this for general
> use at a site.  I know that Brookline library has ethernet that we can
> use with there own dhcp server. I don't recall Northland Library's
> configuration (probably not too different).
> 
> What would be the best way to configure it?  Run it as a standalone
> setup using its own DHCP server, on a separate network?
> 
> Connect it into the local/house network. Use their PXE server? Doesn't
> at first glance, depending on the config of the house's network appear
> to be a good idea. However, for discussion's sake, what would be the
> complexities involved there if any? Maybe multi-home it to isolate its
> main business from the local network until time to update an install?
> Complexity?
> 
> Or just install a complete repository to the harddisk and use that for
> updates. Again degree of implementation complexity?
> 
> 
> I like this idea of a menu driven multi-distro pxe server. In fact, I've
> proposed and we're now married (it love at first click:)). However, I
> could be convinced to file for a divorce, it could get messy though :D.
> 
> 
> Lighttpd could be substituted for apache? Right?  Is there an
> alternative to bind that would have similar functionality w/o the large
> foot print?  Bind or a web server isn't really needed. I believe a text
> based menu setup is certainly possible as well. Just want to follow the
> k.i.s.s. principle for now and maybe later if time permit go for the
> full monty.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Terry Golightly
> Vice Chair Your Wplug
> vicechair at wplug.org
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Moshe Hyzon
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