<div dir="ltr">Greetings everyone,<div><br></div><div>**initial disclaimer; new to this stuff, not good with networking**</div><div><br></div><div>I was able to get a PXE boot started for a Debian installation on an AMD Geode machine. The installer begins fine and it gets to the point of asking for a mirror to use for installation packages. I select the main Debian mirror. This is where it fails as it seems unable to access the internet. Alt-F4 shows messages on the client ending with:</div>
<div><br></div><div>choose-mirror[1618]: WARNING **: mirror does not support the specified release (wheezy)</div><div><br></div><div>The machine I'm using as a host is an HP workstation with two gigabit net ports (eth0 and eth1).</div>
<div><br></div><div>eth1 is plugged into my router and gets an internal IP address of 192.168.1.3</div><div>eth0 is set up with a static IP address of 192.168.10.1</div><div><br></div><div>I installed dnsmasq and resolvconf (Debian suggested package when installing dnsmasq) on my host, installed (unarchived) the PXE boot install files (netboot.tar.gz) for Debian 7 (wheezy) in the /srv/tftp directory and got it to the point where the client boots and starts the install process. The client gets an IP address from dnsmasq of 192.168.10.50</div>
<div><br></div><div>I guess I'm not understanding how I can get the client machine to access the eth1 which has access to the outside via the router.</div><div><br></div><div>Here's a couple of the config files that I have thus far. I'm sure there's something glaringly incorrect. But, like I said, I'm not good with the networking stuff. If any more information is needed please let me know.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Any advice would be much appreciated....</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>/etc/network/interfaces</div><div><br></div><div><div># This file describes the network interfaces available on your system</div>
<div># and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).</div><div><br></div><div># The loopback network interface</div><div>auto lo</div><div>iface lo inet loopback</div><div><br></div><div># The primary network interface</div>
<div>allow-hotplug eth1</div><div>iface eth1 inet dhcp</div><div><br></div><div># The secondary network interface</div><div>auto eth0</div><div>iface eth0 inet static</div><div>address 192.168.10.1</div><div>gateway 192.168.1.3</div>
<div>netmask 255.255.0.0</div><div>network 192.168.10.0</div><div>broadcast 192.168.10.255</div></div><div><br></div><div>/etc/dnsmasq.conf</div><div><br></div><div><div>interface=eth0</div><div>enable-tftp</div><div>dhcp-range=192.168.10.50,192.168.10.55,255.255.255.0,1h</div>
<div>dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0,pxeserver,192.168.10.1</div><div>dhcp-host=00:40:CA:A2:A3:6C,192.168.10.50,1h</div><div>pxe-service=x86PC,"Install Linux",pxelinux</div><div>tftp-root=/srv/tftp</div></div><div><br></div>
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