Re: [Thinstation-general] Thinstation and gPXE

[Martin Z. <Mar...@t-...>]

> I have downloaded and extracted Syslinux-4.03.zip to my C drive from 
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/
>

extract "gpxelinux.0" and put it in the tftp-root directory (I use 
TFTPD32, by the way: http://tftpd32.jounin.net). gpxelinux.0  contains 
both (gPXE and the pxelinux.0). This way your PXE-clients can afterwards 
boot from http (faster!!)  instead of tftp. gPXE-clients can do that 
natively.

also create a "pxelinux.cfg"-folder inside your tpft-root-directory.

put the (plain text) file "default" into this .cfg-folder. it should 
contain at least:

/default linux
prompt 0

label linux
  kernel vmlinuz
  append ramdisk_blocksize=4096 initrd=initrd root=/dev/ram1 
ramdisk_size=1000000 console=ttyS3 debug=off splash=silent vga=791

/or something like that./
/
Now your clients (PXE-clients as well as gPXE-clients, if you have done 
the chaining-trick) should try to load "vmlinuz" and "initrd" from  the 
tftp-server's root.
Because I want my clients to get these files*not from tftp *but from 
*http* (Windows IIS-Server, a Web-Server), i modified the "default"-file:

/default linux
prompt 0

label linux
  kernel *http://192.168.2.1/vmlinuz.xtp*
  append ramdisk_blocksize=4096 initrd=*http://192.168.2.1/initrd.bin*  
root=/dev/ram1 ramdisk_size=1000000 console=ttyS3 debug=off 
splash=silent vga=791/

I gave these files the extensions ".xtp" and ".bin", because of the 
http-server's MIME-types. (It must be "binary/octet-stream"), when I 
copied them to IIS-"wwwroot"-directory.

gPXE-clients also can get the "pxelinux.0" from the http-server, if you 
configure the boot-server option in your DHCP-Server.

> What do I do next? Am I right in assuming that by my http-server, you 
> mean the 2003 Terminal Server (in my case)?
>
no, i ment the IIS-Web server (WWW)-server (an apache could do the same 
thing).

> Also you said "This way both types of client can receive vmlinuz / 
> initrd from my http-server".Where will I find the vmlinuz/initrd and 
> where do I install this? i.e does it go into the tftproot folder?
>
They are part of the SYSLINUX-package, but are also created by 
TS-O-MATIC or by the thinstation build-environment (Folder boot-images/PXE)

put them to your "wwwroot" or tftp-root folder (preferable wwwroot of  
http-server)

Martin