so you're saying I should just be able to put the live cd in one of my machines, then use a network boot over the lan<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 September 2010 14:30, Jim Price <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:d1version@hotmail.com">d1version@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On 16/09/10 08:24, Neil Greenwood wrote:<br>
> On 15 September 2010 19:44, Jacob Mansfield<<a href="mailto:cyberjacob@gmail.com">cyberjacob@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> surely I could just put the live CD onto my working ubuntu desktop and do a<br>
>> PXE boot to it<br>
>><br>
><br>
> You would need to set up the infrastructure that will supply the PXE<br>
> boot information to the netbook.<br>
><br>
> I've not done this, but I think you need:<br>
> - a DHCP server<br>
> - a TFTP server<br>
> - an NFS or HTTP server<br>
> - a boot kernel and initrd that will let the netbook connect to the<br>
> NFS or HTTP server<br>
><br>
> You would then need configuration to supply the PXE information to the<br>
> netbook when it makes the DHCP request, and share the CD, and point<br>
> the boot kernel/initrd to the shared CD, and...<br>
<br>
</div>I found the easiest way to get something to PXE boot was to boot the<br>
Edubuntu DVD on another machine on the network. It has the ability to<br>
boot remote hosts from itself, but I can't remember if what you get<br>
after you've booted has the installer software on it. I would think it<br>
does. There was one bug I hit which was easy to fix - it picks up the<br>
wrong network device name if you use it from a machine with only one<br>
network port. Putting eth0 in the config sorted that. I was just using<br>
it to demonstrate the sort of thing you can do with Ubuntu, and I have<br>
to say it did impress those who saw it boot one machine from one of<br>
their other machines without me installing any software.<br>
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