Comments on: HowTo: Setup your own PXE Boot Server using Ubuntu Server

By: Benny

Benny — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:28:02 +0000

For those of you already have a dhcp server you can use the ProxyDHCP method using dnsmasq instead of dhcp3-server. it can also be used as a tftp server.

By: Hans

Hans — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 06:30:21 +0000

Yep,

They are both on the 64 bit iso I downloaded from an Ubuntu mirror.
The empty one is in install/netboot, the right one is in install/netboot/ubuntu-installer/amd64

By: HyRax

HyRax — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:07:54 +0000

Two of them? Never seen that… Are you using an official ISO? Glad you got it sorted, though.

By: Hans

Hans — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:23:19 +0000

HOLD PRESSES !
To answer my own question: It turns out that there were two pxelinux.0 files on the DVD.
One with size 0, and one with size 15k.
I copied the empty one over….
After replacing this empty one with the right one, everything works perfectly.

Thanks again.

By: Hans

Hans — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:12:51 +0000

Hi,
First: thanks for the great howto. Was looking for something exactly like this…

I do have a problem though. Everything seems to be in order on my 10.04 PXE server that serves as a DHCP server as well. Booting the client PC from network seems to work, because I see the client getting an IP address. But then nothing happens anymore. The only thing I see on the server in syslog is from tftp: client does not accept options, but that does not seem to be a problem.
Any idea why the client seems to hang after IP assignment ?

Thanks,
Hans

By: HyRax

HyRax — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 13:28:08 +0000

You must ensure that you only have ONE DHCP SERVER on your network. That means disable the DHCP server on your router or whatever else is currently serving addresses on your network, or they will clash. Make sure that your VM’s are picking up an IP address from your new DHCP server, not your original DHCP server.

By: nolance

nolance — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 07:06:19 +0000

my current Os is win7 and i want to text PXE functioning . so i installed ubuntu 11.04(desktop edition) in VirtualBox and then performed the steps 1-18 successfully.
i used the netbook.tar.gz in place of alternate CD and 1-18 steps didnt show any problems.Also i changed the mode of the network adapter from NAT to Bridged Mode.
and now i created another Blank virtualmachine with no OS inorder to install ubuntu from the previously created UbuntuVirtualMachine. and im stuck at step-19.i have installed dhcp server on the first virtual machine but i have absolutely no clue about how to proceed from there keeping in view the virtual machine im using and the IP address that im supposed to use for the 2 VMs to connect to each other.Please help me regarding this!

By: HyRax

HyRax — Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:35 +0000

Yes it is, but you need to either setup a FreeDOS environment with working network drivers (painful), or a WinPE image with working network drivers (less painful), to map a drive to a Samba share where the XP install files are and kick off the install.

The Windows installer will prep the local HDD (partition/format), copy the install files locally and then reboot to continue the installation “natively”.

This will be the subject of a future article once I get around to writing it!

By: Tony Khiami

Tony Khiami — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:28:32 +0000

Is it possible to install WinXP using ubuntu PXE?

By: HyRax

HyRax — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:51:51 +0000

You are absolutely right – it’s dhcpd.conf not dhcp.conf – that’s what happens when I get used to tab-completing everything, but then don’t copy & paste for tutorials! Fixed.