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  config delprop tftpd refuse
 
  config delprop tftpd refuse
 
  signal-event tftpd-conf
 
  signal-event tftpd-conf
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===Setup PXE Booting===
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Some rough notes on setting up PXE booting for linux using syslinux
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https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=PXELINUX
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To use a menu we need a copy of pxelinux.0
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From the syslinux wiki link above:
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On the TFTP server, create the directory "/tftpboot", and copy "pxelinux.0" (from the Syslinux distribution) and any kernel or initrd images that you want to boot.
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[5.00+] Also copy "ldlinux.c32" from the Syslinux distribution to the "/tftpboot" directory on the TFTP server.
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Finally, create the directory "/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg". The configuration file (equivalent of syslinux.cfg -- see the SYSLINUX FAQ for the options here) will live in this directory.
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The actual linux image needs to be extracted here:
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/tftpboot/images/{name_of_distro}
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====Menus====
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We can create a menu system with sub menus as well.
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Yu will need this from the syslinux ISO:
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/tftpboot/com32/vesamenu.c32
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You can add a background image like this:
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/tftpboot/images/graphics/background.png
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Example /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default:
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<pre>
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menu title --== SME Linux, PXE Main Menu ==--
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menu background graphics/background.png
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menu tabmsgrow 22
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menu cmdlinerow 22
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menu endrow 24
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menu color title                1;34;49    #eea0a0ff #cc333355 std
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menu color sel                  7;37;40    #ff000000 #bb9999aa all
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menu color border              30;44      #ffffffff #00000000 std
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menu color pwdheader            31;47      #eeff1010 #20ffffff std
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menu color hotkey              35;40      #90ffff00 #00000000 std
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menu color hotsel              35;40      #90000000 #bb9999aa all
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menu color timeout_msg          35;40      #90ffffff #00000000 none
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menu color timeout              31;47      #eeff1010 #00000000 none
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prompt 0
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noescape 1
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allowoptions 0
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timeout 0
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default com32/vesamenu.c32
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label linuxmenu
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menu label ^Linux Boot Disks Menu
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kernel com32/vesamenu.c32
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append pxelinux.cfg/linux_boot_disks
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label Arch
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menu label ^Arch Boot Disks Menu
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kernel com32/vesamenu.c32
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append pxelinux.cfg/arch
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label bootimg
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menu label ^Other Boot Images
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kernel com32/vesamenu.c32
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append pxelinux.cfg/bootimg
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</pre>
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We then need to create separate sub menu configuration files in the same directory. Note the use of NFS is required for some of the setups here.
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{{Note box|These are old configs that have not been tested recently but should give an idea. Please update with any recent information}}
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Sample for /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/linux_boot_disks
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The symbol ^ as per eg "Back to ^Main" is used to create an underlined shortcut key M in this instance.
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<pre>
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menu title --== Linux Boot Images ==--
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menu background graphics/background.png
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menu tabmsgrow 22
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menu cmdlinerow 22
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menu endrow 24
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menu color title                1;34;49    #eea0a0ff #cc333355 std
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menu color sel                  7;37;40    #ff000000 #bb9999aa all
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menu color border              30;44      #ffffffff #00000000 std
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menu color pwdheader            31;47      #eeff1010 #20ffffff std
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menu color hotkey              35;40      #90ffff00 #00000000 std
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menu color hotsel              35;40      #90000000 #bb9999aa all
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menu color timeout_msg          35;40      #90ffffff #00000000 none
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menu color timeout              31;47      #eeff1010 #00000000 none
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prompt 0
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noescape 1
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allowoptions 0
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timeout 0
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default com32/vesamenu.c32
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label main
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menu label Back to ^Main Menu
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kernel com32/vesamenu.c32
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append pxelinux.cfg/default
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label Mint 12
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menu label ^Mint 12
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kernel images/mint_12/vmlinuz
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append boot=casper initrd=images/mint_12/initrd.lz
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label Debian Mint
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menu label ^Debian Mint
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kernel images/debian_mint/vmlinuz
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append boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=192.168.10.1:/home/e-smith/files/ibays/computer/files/debian_mint initrd=images/debian_mint/initrd.lz
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label Xubuntu
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menu label ^Xubuntu
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kernel images/xubuntu_1110/vmlinuz
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append boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=192.168.10.1:/home/e-smith/files/ibays/computer/files/xubuntu_1110 initrd=images/xubuntu_1110/initrd.lz
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label Clonezilla-live
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MENU LABEL Clonezilla Live (Ramdisk)
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KERNEL images/clonezilla/vmlinuz
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APPEND initrd=images/clonezilla/initrd.img boot=live username=user union=overlay config components quiet noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid locales=en_GB.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=uk keyboard-layouts= ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no net.ifnames=0 nosplash noprompt fetch=tftp://192.168.10.1//images/clonezilla/filesystem.squashfs
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label systemrescue
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menu label ^System Rescue
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kernel images/recovery/systemrescue/rescuecd
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initrd images/recovery/systemrescue/initram.igz
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append setkmap=us netboot=http://192.168.0.10/iso/sysrescue/sysrcd.dat
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label riplinux32
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menu label ^Rescue Is Possible Linux (32-bit kernel)
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kernel images/recovery/riplinux/kernel32
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append vga=normal video=640x400 nokeymap initrd=images/recovery/riplinux/rootfs.cgz root=/dev/ram0 rw
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label riplinux64
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menu label Rescue ^Is Possible Linux (64-bit kernel)
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kernel images/recovery/riplinux/kernel64
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append vga=normal video=640x400 nokeymap initrd=images/recovery/riplinux/rootfs.cgz root=/dev/ram0 rw
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LABEL -
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MENU LABEL SeaTools for DOS V2.23 (Seagate/Maxtor)
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TEXT HELP
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GUI version. Test PATA/IDE/SATA drives by instructing the drive to run its
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built-in Drive Self Test (DST) and give either a pass or fail status.
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ENDTEXT
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#COM32 linux.c32 memdisk
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kernel images/memdisk
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INITRD images/UBCD/ubcd/images/seatool2.img.gz
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label GParted Live
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MENU LABEL ^GParted Live
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kernel /images/gparted/vmlinuz
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append initrd=initrd.img boot=live config components union=overlay username=user noswap noeject ip= vga=788 fetch=http://192.168.10.1/computer/filesystem.squashfs
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</pre>
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===Voip Phones===
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You can use tftpd with your Voip phones.
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More advanced phones will allow you to choose a directory for your firmware where. More basic phones may not be able to you anything other than the default root directory.
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e.g
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I have some old Mitel phones use /tftpboot only
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I have a number of new Grandstream phones that can load from /tftpboot/some_directory
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Most Voip phone scan read a config file based on their MAC address to configure themselves during boot.
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This can takea while to set up but is a massive time saver.
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===Related Contribs===
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https://wiki.koozali.org/Thinclient
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This can aid with basic tftpd setup.
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There is also a distro called [https://sourceforge.net/projects/thinstation/ Thinstation] This PXE it's own Linux distro that can be used a thin client.
    
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