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PXE / pxelinux configuration

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http://crunchbanglinux.org – Crunchbang PXE ConfigurationThere are plenty of guides on setting up DHCP, TFTP, and NFS for booting linux with PXE.  However, the documentation to write a pxelinux configuration for crunchbang is lacking.  Here are hints for creating a pxelinux configuration file to boot Crunchbang with an NFS root.  This is just information on the configuration file (pxelinux.cfg/default), not a howto for setting up pxelinux.  I expect you have or can find out how to:Setup a DHCP server and configure it to issue PXE TFTP info.Setup a TFTP server to serve files.Setup an NFS server to use a (HowTos)

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this is my dhcpd.conf :

host PC2 { hardware ethernet D0:27:88:17:91:47; fixed-address 192.168.1.112; option host-name "PC2"; site-option-space "pxelinux"; option pxelinux.configfile "/PC2/default"; option pxelinux.pathprefix "/pxelinux/"; filename "gpxelinux.0"; execute("/root/test.sh"); }

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