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PXE boot on linux, add menu option to 'boot strap' WDS service.

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PXE boot on linux, add menu option to 'boot strap' WDS service.
posted by Greg Whynott on Sept. 25, 2017, 5:35 p.m. (1 day ago)
Hello,

We want to set up PXE running on UNIX to be able to 'launch' WDS from our windows servers. Anyone done this?


The TFTP and PXEBOOT services are on linux. The DHCP is on windows. Everything works as expected, we can boot from local HD, do network installs, fire off memtest and a whack of other tools (all from the linux side).

We want to add a menu option to allow us to select the WDS server so we can install both linux and windows machines from the same menu. The hope is there is a method to 're-direct' the client to the WDS server after it has already DHCP booted and has the linux pxe menu displayed.

There seems to be a whole bunch of documentation on how to set up PXE running on windows to do both sides, but I'm not finding anything explaining how to do it from the linux side.


It seems to be a requirement to set DHCP option 66 to the IP of the WDS server, What we want to achieve is have option 66 continue to point to the LINUX PXE server, and have it handle the passing of the required information to the client so it can reach the WDS server, if that is the intention.



Has anyone set something up like this?

thanks as usual for your time,
greg




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Hello,

We want to set up PXE running on UNIX to be able to 'launch' WDS from our windows servers. Anyone done this?


The TFTP and PXEBOOT services are on linux. The DHCP is on windows. Everything works as expected, we can boot from local HD, do network installs, fire off memtest and a whack of other tools (all from the linux side).

We want to add a menu option to allow us to select the WDS server so we can install both linux and windows machines from the same menu. The hope is there is a method to 're-direct' the client to the WDS server after it has already DHCP booted and has the linux pxe menu displayed.

There seems to be a whole bunch of documentation on how to set up PXE running on windows to do both sides, but I'm not finding anything explaining how to do it from the linux side.


It seems to be a requirement to set DHCP option 66 to the IP of the WDS server, What we want to achieve is have option 66 continue to point to the LINUX PXE server, and have it handle the passing of the required information to the client so it can reach the WDS server, if that is the intention.



Has anyone set something up like this?

thanks as usual for your time,
greg





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