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[Master_wrong]

after taking pxe lesson in
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=488348#488348

I thought about cloud pxe and remember that tecnosaurus said that we need site or ftp that give us connection without password...

one way to do that is by portforwarding our computer as server...

i have one howto down here for ftp, but if we ned web server it is similiar:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=342153#342153


ok, what next

[gcmartin]

Seems I remember 2 tools that already do that. You may want to look over their work. "Emerge" and "Netboot Me"

I'm sure there are other web PXE tools that do this. But, I'm not sure how they accomplish it. I willing to help if I can.

Hope this helps

[Master_wrong]

ok, there some info at least...

http://www.netboot.me/

thank you for your tip gcmartin.

** http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64107
*** but I still need to know what to portforward ? -----> its web at port 80

let me try write a rough idea :

1. create humoungous initrd.gz and vmlinuz, using jamesbond's script see **

2 boot Puppy @192.168.2.130 local ----> as web server, put above files accordingly

3. portforward 192.168.2.130 -----> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx internet address (see *** above)

4. using DynDNS.org or similiar (no-ip.com), lock internet address into ------> boot-puppy.webpages.net

5. create netboot.me cd which point to boot-puppy.webpages.net

6. boot client with netboot.me cd.

ok, please inform me if i makes mistake here
this project is possible


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Bravo for jamesbond giving more info:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65379

[Master_wrong]

hi,

I just tested the gpxe and its working, my test was :
gpxe from http://rom-o-matic.net/gpxe/gpxe-1.0.1/contrib/rom-o-matic/build.php


after boot the gpxe cd from the iso, press ctrl-b and type:

dhcp net0
kernel http://192.168.2.130/vmlinuz
initrd http://192.168.2.130/initrd.gz
boot

as i already set up webserver at my linux mint so the location of the
files at linux-mint is at ---> /var/www
its working and puppy, btw we need to set permission so we can download the files.
also we need to press ctrl-b rather quick.

i hope we can edit the iso or something

*************************
i also test using

dhcp net0
kernel http://your-web-server/vmlinuz

as the setting in the http://www.dyndns.com/
it also work,

i didnt check
initrd http://your-web-server/initrd.gz

btw because i believe it will work too and i didnt want to download
100mb+ of my own files .

[jamesbond]

[Master_wrong]

UPDATE : 12-april-2011
After i think about how silly to download my own files, i think about how cool to actually boot from internet....

so, today I successfully boot from web using iso i obtained from
http://rom-o-matic.net/gpxe/gpxe-1.0.1/contrib/rom-o-matic/build.php

----> below is sample embedded script add this text, see picture for test result
#begin sample

#!gpxe
dhcp net0
kernel http://myserver.dyndns.net/cloud/vmlinuz
initrd http://myserver.dyndns.net/cloud/initrd.gz
boot




#end of sample
#-----------------------
so thats great...

this great for computer that has no network pxe booting capability. i think.
because we can even use vbox

and put embedded script something like... (see screenshot-3)

#!gpxe
dhcp net0
kernel http://192.168.2.130/vmlinuz
initrd http://192.168.2.130/initrd.gz
boot


other than that its just cool to have ability to boot from internet.

thanks jamesbond

[cyberdam]

hello

I tested that and it works well (I included it. sfs in the initrd.gz).
By cons to operate pxe, I have not found a way to load or save the file on a server file_save.2fs nfs or tftp.

Have you any idea?

[Master_wrong]

Thank for the feedback

[cyberdam]

I have already seen, but it does not work or I do not understand
but I finally managed to run with a save in the initrd.
I see init changed.

[Master_wrong]

@cyberdam...

so did you solve your problem ?
how did you solve it ?

[dlou99]

What do you guys think about using memdisk to simulate a CDROM from an ISO image in order to PXE boot Puppy Linux?

We'd have to push the maintainers to add a couple of 6kB kernel modules and then run the 4kB 'memdiskfind' binary from the syslinux package at http://ftp.debian.org/pool/main/s/syslinux but after that, it would just be a simple matter of putting this in pxelinux.cfg

[Master_wrong]

[jamesbond]

[jamesbond]

[dlou99]

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