[juneau-lug] Re: next LUG meeting topic

  • From: Jacob Gemmell <dante333@xxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:44:43 -0800

If a straight up machine isn't available, VMware does support PXE boot.  
I will be sure to have that loaded and working on my laptop.


Myron Davis wrote:

>This was tossed around last meeting as a potential topic.
>
>How to set up a PXE boot environment w/ DHCP and a tftp server.
>
>We will cover how the pxelinux.cfg (aka lilo.conf or grub.conf) works and
>also run through a demo on how to convert any iso image to make it pxe
>boot compliant (i.e. loopback mount it, create a loopback file image and
>take the kernel and modify the pxelinux.cfg file to point to the bootable
>kernel).
>
>If we do this hopefully we can bring some boxes that can boot off of the
>network to show how cool and neat setup this is.  (does anybody have any
>computer that they can bring which can bootup off of a network card?)
>
>-Myron
>
>
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