linux distros designed to PXE boot

Galatic · 10-20-2008, 07:29 PM

Hi I'm in the process of building a cluster and don't have enough hard drives for every machine so I'm trying to setup a PXE boot. I've already gotten it to boot into a very basic linux distro useing the initrd file and the kernel image from a linux floppy. so I know i got that part setup right

right now I'm looking for a linux distro that will boot over PXE that has support for python 2.4 or 2.5 (preferable the latter) and has a gui (Gnome or KDE really don't care :P)

Or alternatively I'd be willing to settle for instructions on how to configure TFTP to boot an .iso image

**wmorri** · 10-22-2008, 04:39 PM

Hi,

Sorry that it has taken me soo long to get to your question. I would recommend that you take a look at a couple of websites that I found from google. Remote Network Boot via PXE, PXELINUX, and Ubunut PXE server.

Cheers!

10-20-2008, 07:29 PM	#1 (permalink)
Galatic Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 20 OS: OSX 10.5.1, Win-XP, Ubuntu 7.10	linux distros designed to PXE boot Hi I'm in the process of building a cluster and don't have enough hard drives for every machine so I'm trying to setup a PXE boot. I've already gotten it to boot into a very basic linux distro useing the initrd file and the kernel image from a linux floppy. so I know i got that part setup right right now I'm looking for a linux distro that will boot over PXE that has support for python 2.4 or 2.5 (preferable the latter) and has a gui (Gnome or KDE really don't care :P) Or alternatively I'd be willing to settle for instructions on how to configure TFTP to boot an .iso image

10-22-2008, 04:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
wmorri Moderator/Fedora Amb. Join Date: May 2008 Location: /pm/etc Posts: 2,842 OS: Window 7/Fedora 10 My System	Re: linux distros designed to PXE boot Hi, Sorry that it has taken me soo long to get to your question. I would recommend that you take a look at a couple of websites that I found from google. Remote Network Boot via PXE, PXELINUX, and Ubunut PXE server. Cheers! __________________ Linux Forever!