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#1 2010-06-11 15:43:18

Gremnon
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From: UK
Registered: 2010-03-12
Posts: 43

A PXE problem

It's been a while since I last stopped by here, and in that time, Arch has managed to put itself before everything else I've tried. I honestly don't know how I put up with them before Arch. I like it.
Anyway.

It's got to the point where I'm (again) trying to resurrect an old laptop that, irritatingly, doesn't have any means to boot except PXE, and the HD. Which has a really old Ubuntu on it, that I want to replace with Arch.
The problem is, I can't seem to figure out how to make my existing Arch install on the main PC double as a PXE server, so I can serve Arch to the laptop.
There's two articles in the Arch Wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PXE and http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arc … pxe-server respectively) which I've tried, to no avail, there's the AUR package 'archiso-pxe-server' (which I probably shouldn't have run on the desktop, but I cleaned up after it when I removed it again) which also didn't work, and attempts to use the same method that I used to put Ubuntu on there ages ago also didn't work, as it uses completely different packages. Even a little creative improvising, trying to use similar packages didn't work, though that was also probably a bad idea.

So in all honesty, I've done what my meagre knowledge of PXE booting can do, got nowhere... and I'm hoping someone else might just be able to help figure out just how to get it to work.
I've cleaned up, or at least I hope I have, everything that got left behind by my various attempts, in theory giving a 'clean slate' to work from.
Can anyone lend a hand here?

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