[GLLUG] PXE Debian install problem

[J Neveau]

Well, it's one of those things where I don't "have" to use a PXE boot.  But
I just wanted to see if I could figure out how to do it using this machine:

http://www.fic.com.tw/product/iona603.aspx  obviously, no optical drive.  I
was able to squeeze a 60gigabyte laptop IDE drive into it though!

All of the stuff I've been finding online is for configuring the client
machine (target of install) with it being a part of the regular network,
i.e.-attached
to the router like the other machines, including the one with the boot
image files and such.

My configuration was to have the client machine directly attached to the
host machine (via eth0)  which was then attached to the router for web
access
(via eth1).  The host machine has two NICs built onto the motherboard.

Unfortunately, with my limited networking knowledge (enough to get myself
into trouble) I was not able to figure out how to use the host machine not
only as
the PXE boot host with the install files, but also the bridge to allow the
client doing the Debian install to have internet access to complete the
installation via
a mirror.

I ended up just using a Debian installation ISO on a 1 gigabyte USB flash
memory stick  and ran the network cable direct to the router.  So far, so
good. If I
can get basic Debian install on the AMD Geode, I want to try building a
cut-down, streamlined kernel for it; again, just to see if I can get it to
work.

I didn't want to get too carried away with my workstation machine (host) as
I mainly use it to edit video/audio; no telling what I might have done had
I started trying to
set up a mirror on that machine for the client to use....eek.

Thanks for the suggestions, though.  I appreciate the input!




On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Patrick Goupell <patrick at upmerchants.com>wrote:

>
> On 01/09/2014 10:05 PM, J Neveau wrote:
>
>> Greetings everyone,
>>
>> **initial disclaimer; new to this stuff, not good with networking**
>>
>> 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:
>>
>>
> Do you have to do a PXE boot?
>
> Can you boot an ISO image and install from that?
>
> After the install then do the final setup  for what you need.
>
> --
> Patrick Goupell
>
> Are you free?  Find out at http://www.sedm.org/
> Income taxes?  Find out at http://www.whatistaxed.com
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> linux-user mailing list
> linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-user
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.egr.msu.edu/mailman/public/linux-user/attachments/20140110/a88bac57/attachment.html>