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→Universal Boot CD (UBCD) - the easy way
== Description ==
== Description ==
This is a description of how to pxeboot various operating systems tool on devices connected to your network using the [[Thinclient|Thinclient]] and [[Tftp_server|tftp-server]] contributions.
This is a description of how to pxeboot various operating systems/tools on devices connected to your network using the [[Thinclient|Thinclient]] and [[Tftp_server|tftp-server]] contributions.
Hopefully, by using the files linked to here, and understanding what we have done, you should be able to add your own options/distributions for booting your devices.
Hopefully, by using the files linked to here, and understanding what we have done, you should be able to add your own options/distributions for booting your devices.
You will need to have installed the [[Thinclient#Installation|Thinclient]] and [[Tftp_server#Installation|tftp-server]] contributions.
You will need to have installed the [[Thinclient#Installation|Thinclient]] and [[Tftp_server#Installation|tftp-server]] contributions.
Don't worry about setting any tftp-server parameters, as these are handled by the Thinclient contrib.
Don't worry about setting any tftp-server parameters, as these are handled by the [[Thinclient_usage|Thinclient contrib]].
== Clonezilla ==
== Distros / Tools ==
=== Universal Boot CD (UBCD) - the easy way ===
I have created a sample set of files for deploying [http://clonezilla.org Clonezilla] to your devices here.
I have created a sample set of files for deploying [http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ UBCD] to your devices.
This approach uses the syslinux memdisk utility to boot the UBCD LiveCD over the network via pxelinux.
Log into your server as root and make sure that you are in the /tftpboot directory
cd /tftpboot
Get my preconfigured ubcd directory and expand it
wget --no-check-certificate http://batley.com.au/smecontribs/ubcd_pxelinux.tgz -O ubcd_pxelinux.tgz
tar zxf ubcd_pxelinux.tgz
cd ubcd
Copy in the required syslinux files (tftp cannot follow links outside of it's allowed directories, so you'll need to copy these in)
cp /usr/share/syslinux/pxelinux.0 .
cp /usr/share/syslinux/memdisk .
Download the latest copy of the ubcd iso from [http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/] into the /tftpboot/ubcd directory and create a link to it (my default file looks for ubcd.iso)
ln -s ./ubcd<version>.iso ubcd.iso
The current version at the time of writing this was ubcd535.iso, so:
ln -s ./ubcd535.iso ubcd.iso
Now you will have to setup the 'Distribution' in the Thin Client page under Server Manager, so that the client can boot from it.
Click on 'Click here to add another Thin Client Distribution', under the Distribution section.
Fill in the details as below (Name = Anything you like, Directory = ubcd, Executable = pxelinux.0), and click 'Add'
[[Image:Ubcd_distro.png]]
You then need to tell Thinclient to use this 'Distribution' as the default
[[Image:Ubcd_default.png]]
Or, if you are more adventurous, boot individual workstations, as per [[Thinclient_usage#Workstations|these directions]] for Individually controlled workstations.
Ensure that your device is setup to 'Boot from LAN', and away you go!
[[Category: Howto]]