pxeboot

NAME

pxeboot - Network Booting Operating Systems Configuration Utility

pxeboot [OPTION] [Hostname | IP Address | Subnet]

This is a command line tool for configuring PXE boot files.

-a, add
add a new PXE Boot file.

-m, modify
modify a PXE boot file

-d, delete
delete a PXE boot file

-l, list
list all PXE boot files

-s, serial
Use serial console on client

-S, snapshot <snapshotname>
Use alternate name for diskless snapshot directory

-e, ethernet <ethernet device>
Use this ethernet device to mount diskless directories

-K, kickstart <kickstartfile>
specify the location of the kickstart file, this should be specified as a kernel parameter. http://frodo.lab.boston.redhat.com/kickstart/ks.cfg

-r, ramdisk <size>
specify the size of ramdisk to be used by the installation/diskless kernel

-O, os <Operating System>
specify the operating system description as created with pxeos

-h, help
show usage

Hostname | IP Address
specify the Hostname or IP Address/Subnet to be used for creation of the PXE boot file.

/usr/sbin/pxeboot
/tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/pxeos.xml
/usr/share/system-config-netboot/*
/tftpboot/linux-install/*

To run this program simply type:

pxeboot -l

List all the pxeboot files

pxeboot -a -O RHEL-AS-Diskless -r 1000 10.0

Create a PXEBoot file which will boot a diskless Operating System for any host in the 10.0 subnet

This utility configures PXE boot files to be used for network installations or diskless environments.

Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>