pxe-linux-iso

PXE Boot Linux Distribution Easy

This project helps the user to boot/install the Linux distributions more easy from ISO files.

Supported Linux distribution CD/DVDs

• CentOS/Fedora
• Debian/Ubuntu
• Arch Linux
• Gentoo
• openSUSE
• Mageia
• Manjaro
• Elementary OS
• BlackArch
• Kali/BackTrack
• Mint Linux
• clonezilla
• LXLE
• tinycore
• puppy
• doudoulinux

Supported Linux platforms

This software can run on following systems:

• CentOS/Fedora
• Debian/Ubuntu
• Arch Linux

Features

• One single command line to setup a PXE entry to boot from CD/DVD
• Can be run on multiple Linux systems
• Support CD/DVDs of Fedora/CentOS/Debian/Ubuntu/Arch/Kali/Mint/...

Prerequisites

• Installed NFS server. This script will append lines to file /etc/exports;
• Installed TFTP server. This script will append lines to file /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default;
• To mount ISO files as loop device, a line will also be appended to /etc/fstab;
• Installed syslinux;
• To support HTTP installation, you may need to get the HTTP server installed and link the directory tftpboot as sub-dir of the URL. For example, the tftpboot can be accessed by http://localhost/tfptboot/

Installation

Download the source files from GIT repo

git clone https://github.com/yhfudev/pxe-linux-iso.git

Initialize directories

This script use following tree structure to manage the ISO files:

/var/lib/tftpboot/
  |-- downloads          # the downloaded CD/DVD ISO files and patches
  |-- images-desktop     # mount points for Linux desktop distributions
  |-- images-server      # mount points for Linux server distributions
  |-- images-net         # mount points for netinstall
  |-- kickstarts         # kickstart scripts

The following files also be initialized with default headers:

  /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
  /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/boot.txt

Examples

• Help!

./pxelinuxiso.sh --help

• Initialize directories

sudo ./pxelinuxiso.sh --init

• Add entries to the PXE server

  -- Add Ubuntu mini

sudo ./pxelinuxiso.sh --nfsip 192.168.1.1 'http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu/dists/quantal/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso'

-- Add Kali

sudo ./pxelinuxiso.sh --nfsip 192.168.1.1 --title 'Kali' 'http://archive-5.kali.org/kali-images/kali-linux-1.0.4-amd64.iso'