[TriLUG] PXE Questions

Jason Evans jason.s.evans at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 22:08:13 EDT 2011


Jim,

I've been reading the FOG wiki and it might work, but the problem is that I
would be deploying OS's to multiple kinds of servers.  Some are blades, some
rack mount, some desktops.  I don't know how well that would work with
software imaging like FOG or Clonezilla.

Best Regards,
Jason

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:23 PM, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:

> Have you looked at FOG?
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> http://www.fogproject.org/
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
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> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 4:47 PM
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> Subject: [TriLUG] PXE Questions
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> So right now, I've got a WDS (Windows Deployment Service) server set up
> serving Windows 2008 R2 Sp1 installs and I'd like to add Linux installs
> to the mix.  Mostly RHEL 6.2, RHEL 5.7, SLES 10, SLES 11, Ubuntu, and a
> Firmware Live CD.
>
> Ideally, I'd install a Linux distro on this box and have it completely
> serve all of the operating systems.  What I'd really like is a simple
> syslinux menu that when you boot to PXE it asks you what OS you want and
> then it serves just the ISO over the network.  Automated installs aren't
> needed for any of our installs.
>
> The problem is that most of the documentation online either really old
> or missing.  The syslinux/wdslinux website and wiki have been down for 2
> months.  I'm looking either for some good ideas on how to proceed.
>
> Thanks.
> Jason
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