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Hello,
I have a question. I have an Arch Linux, Hiren's BootCD, and a Windows XP installer disk. I want to boot with Hiren's BootCD (HBCD) first, and after I want install XP. I have some iso files for that.
I read it PXE. I could boot original arch linux installer disk.. But how can I boot another distribution from ISO? I have in HBCD grub and isolinux. How can I convert to pxelinux. Need it for me, or not? And I need some instruction for boot XP.
I read it Windows_PE also. But I don't know how can I setup dnsmasq.conf.
I modified dnsmasq.conf file for this.
tftp-root=/srv/tftp
dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0
dhcp-option-force=209,default
dhcp-option-force=210,/pxelinux.cfg/But I havent answer on boot from tftp why?
Could you help me?
Could you send me an topic? Sorry I didn't found with google.
Thank's
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I didn't realize that there was an article in the wiki for hosting a Windows PE image from Arch Linux, but you have to have a PXE server up and running to have another machine boot from. It can't be dry running PXE and booting PXE on the same machine. It sounds like you want to be able to PXE boot between Arch and Windows.
You probably need to start tftp: systemctl start tftpd.socket. Did it get a DHCP address? Obviously it did.
/var/tftpboot is out-dated in the wiki and should be /srv/tftp.
Not sure what you need the Hiren's bootCD for.
If you have WDS on a windows server, it has to be on an Active Duhrectory server, so that you can provide your long daisy chain credentials to it.
Maybe you should also read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?Di … t_NFS_root
--Also, httpfs2 is in the AUR, so this definitely speeds up the process--
But I don't think that PXE is going to work with Windows XP.
Last edited by nomorewindows (2013-02-26 21:37:12)
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Look ma, no mouse.
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Ok, I could start the tftp server and probed to boot from an iso. But I cannot. Only waiting and point is coming to screen. I think I cant because I have only 512 ram on laptop, and iso is 600 MB do you?
So I do not know what can I do with Arch linux. I want to install XP for mine laptop from desktop pc. But before I installed, I want to backup data to linux server with samba. This need for PXE boot. I think. I seen on Sysresccd, this can boot ownself. But how?
Last edited by gyurman (2013-02-27 20:51:06)
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Ok, I could start the tftp server and probed to boot from an iso. But I cannot. Only waiting and point is coming to screen. I think I cant because I have only 512 ram on laptop, and iso is 600 MB do you?
So I do not know what can I do with Arch linux. I want to install XP for mine laptop from desktop pc. But before I installed, I want to backup data to linux server with samba. This need for PXE boot. I think. I seen on Sysresccd, this can boot ownself. But how?
I still can't follow exactly what you are trying to do...
I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
Look ma, no mouse.
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1. Still I want to boot installed ArchLinux over PXE in laptop from PC. This need for backup old system from laptop.
2. Install XP over PXE for laptop.
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1. Still I want to boot installed ArchLinux over PXE in laptop from PC. This need for backup old system from laptop.
2. Install XP over PXE for laptop.
You have to have an installation of ArchLinux on a machine somewhere. And then from the diskless NFS article I referred to above, that is how you make another installation of ArchLinux for PXE purposes from an already running ArchLinux installation. You can even reuse the packages that you have already downloaded to make this happen quicker. They don't have to be redownloaded just for another installation. which makes pacman a nice package manager. Just have a machine already running, and follow the steps of the NFS diskless wiki article. I have succeeded at doing this numerous times, and have the process down by memory.
I will have to look, but the process for PXE XP is different and I don't think it uses Windows PE. It wasn't until Vista that Windows PE came along. I could be wrong. Windows PE, however, isn't a full installation of Windows even then. The other method for getting it to work is to install it and then install a iSCSI boot initiator and run it from a SAN device. You create the image, and then you save it to the iSCSI target. etherboot.org/gpxe.org/ipxe.org has a page about how to do this. I think the problem you are having is that the laptop doesn't have a CDROM or a hard drive.
I may have to CONSOLE you about your usage of ridiculously easy graphical interfaces...
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