Installation fromPXE netboot

[Dbat]

My Notebook can not Boot over USB and has no optical drive.
So the only was to install is over PXE.
I have installed an PXE Server and try with Linux mint. All work Fine.

But with Mx-Linux Installation Hangs After a while.

Andy hints

Regards

[Eadwine Rose]

Welcome Dbat! First thing to do: have you checked the md5sum of the file to see if it is correct?

[Dbat]

Yes the problem is how to configure the pxelinux.cfg menu

for ubuntu it's like:
KERNEL images/ubuntu/casper/vmlinuz
APPEND boot=casper vga=normal netboot=nfs nfsroot=„IP der Syno“:/volume1/PXE/images/ubuntu fetch=tftp://„IP der Syno“/images/ubuntu/casper/filesystem.squashfs initrd=images/ubuntu/casper/initrd.lz

in MXLinux you have the folders
antiX with file vmlinux
but also folder boot and EFI with subfolders

[lucky9]

no optical drive makes my suggestion somewhat lame.

[Dbat]

The Problem is after load from PXE it shows following error:
unknown boot codes:
netboot=nfs

could not find linuxfs files

[i_ri]

hello
You got grub. use the success of one installed[Mint] to partition and install MX-15 then delete the first[Mint]?
install antix core or mx with this model? will that work? :
http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title= ... ation_Tips
this begins with "for example" in the Mepis Methods documentation that so glad Jerry3904 protected.:
http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php? ... thout_a_CD
tips here thread update the mepis examples too? :
http://forum.mepiscommunity.org/viewtop ... 3&start=10
encouraging that you are intent on MX; you have MX on another machine?

[lucky9]

no optical drive makes my suggestion somewhat lame.

But I should mention that having an External CD/DVD Burner is a benefit in many ways.

[BitJam]

The Problem is after load from PXE it shows following error:
unknown boot codes:
netboot=nfs

could not find linuxfs files

Our live system does not support the netboot feature.

I think i_ri's suggestion is excellent. If you have grub running on that machine already then you can either unpack our iso file and copy over /antiX directory and add a boot entry for it or you could try to boot our iso file directly from grub. For this to work, I think you need to pass in the fromiso=xxxx cheat pointing our system to the iso file.

I think it is better to mount the iso file and copy over the /antiX directory to your system. If you can copy the /antiX directory to the same partition that grub is on then an entry like this in your grub.cfg should work:

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menuentry "MX-15 Live" {
linux /antiX/vmlinuz quiet from=hd
initrd /antiX/initrd.gz
}

I don't know how this translates to the format used by the files grub-update reads. The "from=hd" is needed because we don't normally look at non-usb disk drives for the linuxfs file. You could replace this with either "blab=xxxx" or "buuid=yyyy*" where "xxxx" is the label of the partition that holds the linuxfs file or "yyyy" are the leading characters of the UUID of that partition. You can specify the entire UUID but sometimes it is easier to specify the leading characters followed by a "*".

The installer might balk at using the same drive the live system is running on. If so then, a small modification to the partition-info script can get around this restriction.

[sevo44]

Prompt please, a situation with an opportunity of loading of an image on PXE changed. I get the error shown in the photo.
https://sevo44.ru/sevo44/foto-forums/mx ... ot-pxe.png

[BitJam]

Prompt please, a situation with an opportunity of loading of an image on PXE changed. I get the error shown in the photo.
https://sevo44.ru/sevo44/foto-forums/mx ... ot-pxe.png

As I said above, our system does not support the PXE netboot feature. Sorry.