Ubuntu Installation :: Netboot Using Tftp By Windows?
Mar 1, 2010
I have been trying to install Ubuntu by network booting, I used tftp in Windows in another pc, and the target boots successfully but fails to download from any archive mirror, I'm not sure what goes wrong.
Well, I'm trying to do is, my friend's HP-mini fails to boot to Windows, and BIOS also gives error-messages, the thing is that my friend has important data on his netbook, it has only one drive, no cd-rom, and it doesn't support USB-booting, so I was thinking if I get to access an Ubuntu, I will be able to backup his data and install Windows, I would use anything that would let me copy files.
I've configured my RHEL system to be used as tftp server. I've configured NFS,VSFTPD and DHCP too. Everything works fine, the clients are able to boot from PXE and get the kickstart information from the server and the installation completes successfully. Now the problem is the RHEL installation removes all the existing windows partitions. How do I make my system a dual boot? I've configured my kickstart to use "Remove existing Linux Partitions" and the problem still persists.
after the third time downloading the netbook and installing to sd and or usb i decided to check the md5 but where is the md5 the new download pages bites.. wheres all the mirrors/ the new desighn is a good at waisting space //wheres the md5? bring back ftp style downloads?
When I try to pxe boot a Sun X4100 (which actually has a RHEL OS on it right now) I get the message TFTP open timeout. All traffic is allowed for port 69 udp in both directions. I do get a dhcp address. I see that both on the server and the client it gets an IP. After that I get this message in the logs:
I have just installed ubuntu 10.04 via a netboot install.When my system reboots I only have the command line - no gui. Could someone kindly inform me what command I need to run in order to get a GUI
I am attempting a netboot installation and I aw following the documentation found here My problem is that given my dhcpd.conf I am met with the errors listed below. I have checked to make sure that none of the conditions that the error warns about possible causes are currently in effect on my system.
I have a bootable usb stick with a Linux utility on it. After poking around for a bit I figured out the boot order:
isolinux.bin <--reads isolinux.cfg loads the kernel: SA.1 loads initrd: SA.2
then depending on the options you select it boots one of two .iso files I want this utility to netboot instead of booting with a usb stick; is there a way I can package isolinux.bin, isolinux.cfg, the kernel and initramfs, iso's and all the other files on the root of the usb stick into one iso that can be tftp'd to the host which would then boot something that would extract the iso to ramdisk and start booting so that isolinux would run as if all the files were locally stored on CD/usb stick?
I tried to build a HP DL380 today, and the drive wasn't detected. Suspecting hardware issues, I tried it on a 360, same issue. We built these machines before with no problems I used the 8.10 install on our PXE server, and it worked fine. I suspect it's related to the upcoming 8.04.4 release, perhaps a new kernel has been inserted and has missed the cciss driver? Booting using 8.04, and running find /|grep cciss, doesn't find anything. I can't remember the last hp 8.04 build I did, but it was in the last month or so. Doing it with 8.10 finds the driver. (this is the 32 bit install)
I am very interested in using CentOS as a server for diskless PXE booting and was wondering if this was a possibility. I have a working DHCP/TFTP/HTTP system set up and going and I can get my client machine to boot a linux image without any problems. Ideally I would like the diskless machines to be able to immediately load an image through PXE and store their own filesystems on the server through the use of NFS.I heard about system-config-netboot and got very excited because it sounded like something that would help me set up a diskless system. However, after doing some research I have heard from many that it is generally buggy and unlikely to work. When I tried using it I got the error: "The diskless directory must be NFS exported and contain a boot sub-directory"Even though my diskless directory WAS nfs exported and most definitely contained a boot sub-directory. Does anyone have any advice on using this tool, or using CentOS as a server for diskless clients?
I am trying to use netboot functionality available in GRUB(legacy). I just compiled GRUB with --enable-diskless and --enable-rtl8139 options and installed in USB flash drive. I am getting the grub prompt when tried to boot from that USB. But not getting boot command..what i need to do to enable boot command??
I have a custom Ubuntu distro that run both from a CD and PXE boot. The problem I have is that I need to boot in an environment that has to be routed through a router that can't forward NFS (the protocol doesn't use a standard port) I found that the Ubuntu based Clonezilla Live CD has a option like "fetch tftp://server/folder/filesystem.squashfs" I can borrow the kernel and initrd and it works, but how do I add this feature myself? Is there a package I need to install or a initrd option I need to add?
Do we really need the lines if I am allowing any machine to connect? And I have only 1 network card. This is acting as a dedicated TFTP server.I ask as I get an error on the get and put commands as below:
tftp> get xxx.txt tftp: error received from server <File not found> tftp: aborting
However although it gives an error it DOES GET the file.The put command however does NOT put the file. I have nobody / nogroup setup for the directory permissions as well.
tftp> put .vimrc tftp: error received from server <File not found> tftp: aborting
Press F12 for network service boot PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel Boot Agent. When i take tcpdump on server i see dhcp discover and dhcp offer coming and going out but no tftp request on cobbler server in var/log/messages also i am seeing dhcp offer and discover
How can we use DHCP to find or allocate ipaddress in ubuntu.I have connected Hawkboard, i need to known the ip address of my system and hawkboard. how can i find ip address of board connected to system, i have used serial port null modem cable and ethernet crossover cable between the board and system
In Jaunty (9.04) I've setup a small (eleven-terminal) ltsp network at the local school. It handled around 6600 working hours with ease. Now I've upgrade the server to Karmic Koala (9.10) and it just stopped working. 1) The clients have PXE NICs 2) They get the proper IPs from the DHCP server and respond appropriately to changes in the DHCP configuration files. 3) DHCP server also points the clients to filename=/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0 4) When the clients try to download the pxelinux.0 over tftp they just timeout 5) /etc/inetd.conf has an entry like tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/in.tftpd /usr/sbin/in.tftpd -s /var/lib/tftpboot 6) The file /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0 exists on the server
I'm lost at all these configuration files and protocols.
I'm trying to put / get files a machine running a tftp server but with no success .The client machine is behind a firewall and this is cause of the problem as when the firewall is disabled I can transfer files.I've tried to add this rule but the firewall still blocks the transfer.
Code: uncle@ubuntu:/test-$ sudo ufw allow proto udp from 192.168.0.99 port 69 Rule added[code]......
I have checked several tutorial sites, to no avail. I can't seem to get Winpe 3.0 to boot over tftpd/pxe.Has anyone successful done this using Ubuntu 9.10?, or am I just wasting my time trying.
I'm Melvin, doing a hardware and networking course at Aptech, Kerala, India. How to install IOS image (file.bin) via TFTP from Ubuntu to a Cisco 2600 router. Please post the required steps to configure tftpd in Ubuntu. And since it is insecure, please post recommendations to secure it. Which folder will TFTPd use and what binary permissions to assign to this folder?
I have it working fine when tftp and dhcp are installed on the same server but when trying to forward to a remote tftp it does not work. Dnsmasq insist on giving its local ip.I have added to config:dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0,pxetest2,192.168.0.130and I tried with and without the original hcp-boot=/var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.0Not much on this topic on the google nor on the dnsmasq homepage.
I am trying to transfer a file using tftp between two PC's. I have installed tftp-server, tftp, xinetd on both PC's. I am unable to transfer the file between the two systems. although the self transfer is working on both the system. I am getting the error "Transfer timed out"
cat /etc/xinetd.d/tftp # default: off # description: The tftp server serves files using the trivial file transfer
im trying to setup a tftp server on red hat linux. Ive gone through like all the instructinos online. And like i didnt get any errors or anything when typing the commands on the terminal but basically every time i try to test it i never works sooo im not really sure how im suppose to do this. basically i have a tftp in one ip address. And with another system with a different ip address using the client tftp ipaddr(server) and i try to get foo and it never connects and I tried a ping and they ping together just fine soo im just not sure if the tftp server is even on
I've tried to configure DRBL server to use Clonezilla and that is required me to setup DHCP, TFTP serversBut I've gotten a lot of errors from them - so please look at my attachments from /var/log/messages and dhcpd.conf - help me to find out what are wrong with them.
Feb 23 09:47:46 eth0-eth0 last message repeated 17 times Feb 23 09:55:06 eth0-eth0 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.1.53 from 00:13:20:36:26:28 via eth0: unknown lease 192.168.1.53.
This is very old topic but despite of trying out all possible solutions available on net and forums, I am not able to setup tftp server on my 2.6.32.11-99.FC12.i686.PAE. Is there something obvious missing out.
/etc/xinet.d/tftp # default: off # description: The tftp server serves files using the trivial file transfer # protocol. The tftp protocol is often used to boot diskless # workstations, download configuration files to network-aware printers,
I want to install Ubuntu LTSP on top of an already existing system. However, I want to use a different DHCP and TFTP server. Do I simply just install 'ltsp-server-standalone' with apt and run 'sudo ltsp-build-client', stop the DHCP and TFTP server and stop them from starting automatically? Would I then just copy over the pxelinux.cfg/default file from /var/lib/tftpboot along with the initrd.img and vmlinuz images to the TFTP server?
Edit: Do I need to actually copy the whole /var/lib/tftpboot/ltsp directory over to the TFTP server?
I have created a /tftpboot directory and chmod it to 777 I have put an image 'uImage' on my Debian box under /tftpboot In directory /etc/xinetd.d/ I have created file tftp:
Service tftp { disable = no socket_type= dgram protocol= udp wait= yes user= root
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I keep geting timeouts although uImage is on the debian box and it appears the tftp server is running.
I am trying to put a file from one linux machine to my other linux machine. There is absolutely no problem in downloading the file i.e. performing the "get" operation but when I try to upload or "put file" from my host1 to host2 it throws error "Error 0 Permission denied". I am able to put files from host2 to host1 without any problem but not from host1 to host. Infact if I try to tftp even localhost on host2 it throws the same error. Here is my
/etc/xinetd.d/tftp file for host2 service tftp { socket_type = dgram protocol = udp wait = yes user = root server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd server_args = -c -s /tftpboot #disable = yes disable = no per_source = 11 cps = 100 2 flags = IPv4 } And permissions on /tftpboot are 777 [root@LinuxServer /]# ls -ld /tftpboot/ drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jan 6 05:21 /tftpboot/ [root@LinuxServer /]# ls -l /tftpboot/ total 16 -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jan 6 06:16 new_test -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Jan 5 06:02 test2
And the command which I am using is : [root@LinuxServer /]# tftp localhost -c put new_test Error code 0: Permission denied And ya here is /etc/sysconfig/selinux file is as under : # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing. # disabled - SELinux is fully disabled. SELINUX=permissive # SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are: # targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected. # strict - Full SELinux protection. SELINUXTYPE=targeted
I want a debian server running dhcp/tftp/pxe containing a tarball of a 'client' debian installation.I want a client that pxe boots, talks to the server, creates a ramdisk, untars the 'client' tarball to the ramdisk and boots into it. Once that's working, I want an NFS map back to the server for the users home directory.Can't find any really helpful howto's... wondering if anyone on here has done this?
