PXE SW

NetBoot installers and Live OSs over TFTP. This project is a wizard, collection of install scripts, patches, ... to setup a PXE server with most popular GNU/Linux distros.

Dockerized

• Clone this repository.

git clone https://github.com/piffall/pxe-sw

• Build image and setup, this could take several time

make all

After this point, the container is ready. You only need to start/stop when you need.

docker start pxe-sw
docker stop pxe-sw

Systemd (to start up on boot)

#### Enable as service

make install # Systemd only

Hosted

Requirements

• Debian based OS (Debian,Ubuntu,Mint,...)
• Some packages: wget, sudo, unzip, tar, ...

Install

• Install dependencies

apt-get -y install git tftpd-hpa unzip wget curl p7zip-full xzip xz-utils cpio

• Clone this repository, I recomend you clone into your home path.

git clone https://github.com/piffall/pxe-sw /path/to/pxe-sw

• Run script and answer the questions

./setup.sh

• Create a symlink

ln -s /path/to/pxe/ /srv/tftp

Configure and install TFTP server

• Install tftpd-hpa

sudo apt-get install tftpd-hpa

• Edit the configuration file "/etc/default/tftpd-hpa"

# /etc/default/tftpd-hpa

TFTP_USERNAME="tftp"
TFTP_DIRECTORY="/srv/tftp"
TFTP_ADDRESS="0.0.0.0:69"
TFTP_OPTIONS="--verbose"
#TFTP_OPTIONS="--secure"

Note that "--secure" option line is commented

Configure DHCP Server

Configure with OpenWRT dhcp server

• Edit the DHCP configuration file "/etc/config/dhcp" to add a dhcp_boot option

config dnsmasq
        option domainneeded '1'
        option boguspriv '1'
        option localise_queries '1'
	...
        option dhcp_boot '/srv/tftp/pxelinux.0,pxe-hostname,192.168.1.254' # Change host and IP address.

• Restart your device

Configure with DHCP3 Server

• Add an option to the network configuration

subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
	range 192.168.1.200 192.168.1.253;
	option domain-name "lan";
	default-lease-time 1800;
	max-lease-time 7200;
	next-server "192.168.1.254";                     # The TFTP IP address
	option bootfile-name "/srv/tftp/pxelinux.0";     # The PXE file
}

OS and Tools

Popular GNU/Linux Distributions

• Debian
• Ubuntu
• CentOS
• OpenSuse
• Fedora
• Archlinux

More GNU/Linux Distributions

• GParted
• Kali Linux
• CoreOS
• OpenWRT
• ProxmoxVE (It neets to be downloaded manually) See

Recovery

• System Rescue CD
• Rescatux
• Super Grub Disk

Diagnostic and detection

• HDT (Hardware Detection Tool)
• MHDD (Low-level HDD Diagnostic Tool)
• Memtest86+

Other OS

• FreeDOS
• VMWare ESXi (It needs to be downloaded manually)

Boot Loaders

• Charmeleon (EFI)
• GAG Graphical Boot Manager

Other Tools

• ntpasswd
• DBAN (HDD Eraser)

License

All files are under GNU General Public License v3

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