Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby smystaki » Mon Nov 15, 2010 3:10 pm

Just installed amahi-netboot.
Reason is to boot via PXE motherboards for tesing or to install an OS easily with out any CD burning.
So I prepared 2 additional menu files in folder /usr/share/amahi-netboot/tftp/pxelinux.cfg.
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DEFAULT menu.c32 PROMPT 0 TIMEOUT 100 # start the default after 10 seconds MENU TITLE --== Amahi Netboot Main Menu ==-- # Exit the PXE stack and boot the local system LABEL bootlocal MENU DEFAULT MENU LABEL Boot from the Hard Drive localboot 0 #LABEL PBA # MENU LABEL PBA ---> # kernel vmlinuz # APPEND nfsdir=hda:/var/hda/apps/pba/client/iso lang=us ramdisk_size=100000 nomce dma nosound #apm=power-off nopcmcia nofirewire init=/etc/init nomce vga=normal initrd=miniroot.gz 2 BOOT_IMAGE=insert LABEL Fixes Menu MENU LABEL ^Fixes Menu KERNEL menu.c32 APPEND pxelinux.cfg/fixes.menu LABEL Distros MENU LABEL ^Distros Menu KERNEL menu.c32 APPEND pxelinux.cfg/distros.menu
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MENU TITLE Distros Menu LABEL Main Menu MENU LABEL ^Return to Main Menu KERNEL menu.c32 APPEND pxelinux.cfg/default LABEL pick one MENU LABEL fluppy ---> kernel vmlinuz APPEND nfsdir=hda:/var/hda/apps/pba lang=us ramdisk_size=100000 nomce dma nosound apm=power-off nopcmcia nofirewire init=/etc/init nomce vga=normal initrd=miniroot.gz 2 BOOT_IMAGE=insert.iso LABEL pick two MENU LABEL puppy ---> kernel vmlinuz APPEND nfsdir=hda:/var/hda/apps/pba lang=us ramdisk_size=100000 nomce dma nosound apm=power-off nopcmcia nofirewire init=/etc/init nomce vga=normal initrd=miniroot.gz 2 BOOT_IMAGE=insert.iso
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MENU TITLE Fixes Menu LABEL Main Menu MENU LABEL ^Return to Main Menu KERNEL menu.c32 APPEND pxelinux.cfg/default #LABEL fsck # menu label ^File system check # kernel TRK/kernel.trk # append initrd=TRK/chkdsk.trk ramdisk_size=32768 root=/dev/ram0 vga=0 LABEL memtest86+ MENU LABEL Memtest86+ ---> kernel memtest/memtest86+-1.65 #LABEL trk3 # menu label ^Trinity Rescue Kit # kernel TRK/kernel.trk # append initrd=TRK/initrd.trk ramdisk_size=32768 root=/dev/ram0 vga=0 trknfs=IPADDR:/trk ip=::::::dhcp splash=verbose
Menus are working.
memtest in any location works perfectly.

But it is not possible to mount the image of a live cd.

I have place all images available in folder /var/hda/apps/pba..
It seems like a share problem.

I've tried without success samba shares also.

Any Ideas?

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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby bigfoot65 » Mon Nov 15, 2010 4:47 pm

There is more to setting up netboot apps than the menus. Many live CDs will not work without extra work. Trinity Rescue CD is one of them. You will need to setup NFS sever to make it work.

You can google to find out how to set that up. There is guidance out there on how to make them work via PXE boot which is the same as Amahi-netboot. Keep in mind this is advanced linux stuff. We have a few apps in beta using amahi-netboot but have not had time to develop it more.

We are a very small team of volunteers working on the Fedora 14 release of Amahi. That is our primary focus at the moment. Maybe once things settle down, we can get back to the netboot.
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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby smccloud » Sat Dec 04, 2010 9:40 am

Just found this thread. In theory we should be able to add any OS capable of booting via PXE to this right? i.e. F14, Debian, even possibly Windows Vista/7 (although those two will be very hard).

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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby bigfoot65 » Sat Dec 04, 2010 10:04 am

In theory, however you will need to add additional packages depending on how you want PXE to work. It uses TFTP now so http access to netboot apps works fine. If you wanna do NFS then you need to add all the structure for it.

One thing that is important is some modification could break the existing structure. I had NFS working for an Ubuntu install a while back. But the Live CDs were another story...some worked but too forever to boot.

It is something to play with and if you have any success, please add it to the wiki.
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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby dforbes » Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:16 am

All,

I've been playing with amahi-netboot for a little while now. I don't know whether my use-case is particularly common or not, but I tend to download ISOs for new releases when they come out and like to test drive them with minimal effort. I've come up with a couple of scripts that:

1. Use automount and /dev/loop to allow you to casually browse any ISO on your HDA (in either /home/*/Downloads or /var/hda/torrents).

2. Generate PXE boot menus to allow many ISOs to netboot using NFS on the automounted ISO images.

It doesn't work for some distros; notably any Live images that were generated using the dracut system are particularly problematic. Probably with a bit of tweaking these can be made to work to, I just haven't cracked it yet.

Is anyone else interested in this use-case?

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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby evylrat » Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:51 am

Yes please! I use PXE quite alot, mainly for memtest, hd drive testing / nuking. Also got Clonezilla and Gparted on there. Next is Android X86 project. Only just moved these from my old ubuntu server, so not tried clonezilla, gparted yet.
Nice Amahi wallpaper and layout on my PXE menu.

So yes please to your script dforbes

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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby dforbes » Tue Feb 22, 2011 12:31 pm

Ok, I've written it up in the wiki at:

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Browse_ ... ISO_images

It's a while since I first set this up, so drop me a line if it doesn't work and we'll work out which steps I've forgotten.

By exchange, I'd love to hear how you got an Amahi wallpaper on your PXE menu; I've been trying to do that, but can't seem to get it to work.

Cheers,

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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby evylrat » Wed Feb 23, 2011 6:37 pm

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DEFAULT vesamenu.c32 TIMEOUT 600 ONTIMEOUT BootLocal PROMPT 0 MENU INCLUDE pxelinux.cfg/pxe.conf NOESCAPE 1 LABEL BootLocal localboot 0 TEXT HELP Boot to local hard disk ENDTEXT MENU BEGIN Tools and Utilities MENU TITLE Tools and Utilities LABEL Previous MENU LABEL Previous Menu TEXT HELP Return to previous menu ENDTEXT MENU EXIT MENU SEPARATOR MENU INCLUDE pxelinux.cfg/utilities.menu MENU END MENU BEGIN DOS Based BootDisks MENU TITLE DOS Based BootDisks LABEL Previous MENU LABEL Previous Menu TEXT HELP Return to previous menu ENDTEXT MENU EXIT MENU SEPARATOR MENU INCLUDE pxelinux.cfg/dos.menu MENU END MENU BEGIN Linux MENU TITLE Linux LABEL Previous MENU LABEL Previous Menu TEXT HELP Return to previous menu ENDTEXT MENU EXIT MENU SEPARATOR MENU INCLUDE pxelinux.cfg/linux.menu MENU END MENU BEGIN Linux Installs MENU TITLE Linux Installs LABEL Previous MENU LABEL Previous Menu TEXT HELP Return to previous menu ENDTEXT MENU EXIT MENU SEPARATOR MENU INCLUDE pxelinux.cfg/linuxinst.menu MENU END
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MENU TITLE PXE Server MENU BACKGROUND pxelinux.cfg/splash.png menu color tabmsg 37;40 #a0000000 #00000000 menu color hotsel 37;40 #f0000000 #a0000000 menu color hotkey 37;40 #a0000000 #30000000 none menu color sel 37;40 #f0000000 #50000000 menu color unsel 37;40 #a0000000 #00000000 none menu color scrollbar 30;47 #40000000 #00000000 menu color border 30;44 #00000000 #00000000 none menu color title 1;36;44 #ff000000 #00000000 none menu color cmdline 37;40 #fff64f09 #00000000 none menu color cmdmark 1;36;40 #ffc90417 #00000000 none MENU WIDTH 77 MENU MARGIN 0 MENU ROWS 12 MENU TABMSGROW 20 MENU CMDLINEROW 21 MENU HELPMSGROW 21 MENU HELPMSGENDROW -1 MENU ENDROW -1 MENU TIMEOUTROW 19 MENU VSHIFT 13 NOESCAPE 0 ALLOWOPTIONS 1
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MENU BEGIN CloneZilla & GParted MENU TITLE CloneZilla & GParted LABEL Previous MENU LABEL Previous Menu TEXT HELP Return to previous menu ENDTEXT MENU EXIT MENU SEPARATOR MENU INCLUDE pxelinux.cfg/clone.menu MENU END MENU BEGIN Hard Drive Tools MENU TITLE Hard Drive Tools LABEL Previous MENU LABEL Previous Menu TEXT HELP Return to previous menu ENDTEXT MENU EXIT MENU SEPARATOR MENU INCLUDE pxelinux.cfg/drivetools.menu MENU END label memtest menu label ^Memtest86+ 4.15b kernel memdisk append initrd=images/tools/memtestp4.img label HDT menu label HDT ^Hardware Detection Tool kernel memdisk append initrd=images/tools/hdt-0.3.6.img label dban menu label DBAN Hard Drive ^Wipe KERNEL images/tools/dban.bzi append initrd pxe/DBAN.BZI root=/dev/ram0 init=rc nuke="dwipe" TEXT HELP Warning - This will erase your hard drive ENDTEXT label killdisk menu label ^KillDisk 4.1 kernel memdisk append initrd=images/tools/killdisk_41.img
So I just need to get Clonezilla/Gparted working again.
Wallpapers have to be 640x480.
You can have different ones per menu, so if you're feeling creative, you could almost make a fake UI.
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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby bigfoot65 » Wed Feb 23, 2011 8:04 pm

That is a nice splash screen. We would like to add that to amahi netboot. Can it be added to the wiki?

Also, to prevent breakage of current netboot apps....there needs to be some modification to the menu structure.

We use /usr/share/amahi-netboot/tftp/menu to hold menus and /usr/share/amahi-netboot/tftp/conf to hold submenus. This structure is then incorporated in the /usr/share/amahi-netboot/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/default file automaticaly on install of netboot apps.

This is important to prevent any netboot apps installed via one-click from removing others. It is possible to add some of the functionality in the wiki to an app I would imagine.

I would be happy to work this with those interested.
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Re: Announcing: Amahi Netboot pre-release

Postby evylrat » Sat Apr 09, 2011 11:37 am

Anyone successful with the "Browse and Netboot ISO images" guide? Not getting any iso to mount.
Trying

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# ls /var/hda/files/Public/library/iso ubuntu-10.10-desktop-amd64.iso unetbootin-windows-549.exe

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# cat /media/.iso-fs.map DIR_LIST=(/var/hda/files/Public/library/iso) iso='find ${DIR_LIST[@]} -name $1.iso -type f' echo "-fstype=iso9660 :$iso"

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# cat auto.master # # Sample auto.master file # This is an automounter map and it has the following format # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location # For details of the format look at autofs(5). # /misc /etc/auto.misc # # NOTE: mounts done from a hosts map will be mounted with the # "nosuid" and "nodev" options unless the "suid" and "dev" # options are explicitly given. # /net -hosts /media/iso-fs /media/.iso-fs.map ro,loop --timeout=5 # # Include central master map if it can be found using # nsswitch sources. # # Note that if there are entries for /net or /misc (as # above) in the included master map any keys that are the # same will not be seen as the first read key seen takes # precedence. # +auto.master

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# ls /media/iso-fs -a . ..
Nowt in there!

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