Installation via PXE using FreeNAS as the server

Discussion in 'Suggest HOWTO' started by HarshReality, Jun 28, 2010.

  1. HarshReality

    HarshReality New Member

    Title is rather self explanatory I think... Just built a 4T NAS using FreeNAS and would like to set it up for Lin, Win Install, system diags and Ghost operation via PXE boot. Of course in the process I am also looking for suggested diag bootable software suggestions.. In a perfect world I would not only be able to run diags but access antivirus and possibly manipulate the file system of the host machine.

    So, anybody know how to do that one ;)
     
    Last edited: Jun 28, 2010
  2. HarshReality

    HarshReality New Member

    I resolved this on my own.. using Tomato as my routers main software I added
    Code:
    dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0,,192.168.1.xx
    
    to Administration > DNSMasq where xx is the IP of my FreeNAS Server

    In FreeNAS I enabled TFTP and set my share path. I then got your install script and ran it for 'multiple linux installs the easy way' and copied those files to my TFTP share path.

    Presto!

    Now I just have to figure out how to get a windows install to run from it and recovery tools like antivirus and ghost ;)
     

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