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Thread: Install Ubuntu to iSCSI target from USB drive
Post: RE: Install Ubuntu to iSCSI target from USB drive
| Should note I am trying to install Ubuntu x64 desktop here.
Well after hours of messing around reading and trail/error
I have come to the conclusion that using a USB drive to install from isn't the ... |
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nry |
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2014-03-24, 02:02 |
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Thread: Install Ubuntu to iSCSI target from USB drive
Post: Install Ubuntu to iSCSI target from USB drive
| Hi all
Trying to setup my XBMC as diskless with little success so far.
I first tried to hook the drive I wanted to install to then boot from the ISO image.
Code:
sanhook iscsi:10.0.5.10:::9:iqn.20... |
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nry |
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11,235 |
2014-03-23, 20:01 |
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Thread: Installing Windows 7 to iSCSI Target
Post: RE: Installing Windows 7 to iSCSI Target
| ipxe script now...
Code:
#!ipxe
sanhook iscsi:10.0.5.10:::7:iqn.2013-05.server:n2win
chain http://10.0.5.10/win7/boot.ipxe
Still have the same issue with the white screen. Left it for over 10 minu... |
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nry |
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2013-05-28, 16:01 |
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Thread: Installing Windows 7 to iSCSI Target
Post: Installing Windows 7 to iSCSI Target
| After lots of messing around I finally got my ESXi hosts all diskless booting with iPXE. Works perfectly :D
I am now trying to dual boot two of my ESXi hosts using a PHP script, which seems to work. ... |
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nry |
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2013-05-24, 18:47 |
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Thread: Boot ESXi installer and install to iSCSI
Post: RE: Boot ESXi installer and install to iSCSI
| Just thought I'd post an update, I seem to have it all working now besides a few issues with ESXi not saving configs.
I added a new PXE VLAN, set DHCP on this and setup network booting of iPXE with t... |
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nry |
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2013-05-23, 18:48 |
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Thread: Boot ESXi installer and install to iSCSI
Post: RE: Boot ESXi installer and install to iSCSI
| Ah, I made a new usb boot stick which was unaware of any VLANs and kept everything on one VLAN. All installed in under 5 minutes!
To build ipxe I simply did...
git clone git://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git
c... |
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nry |
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2013-05-22, 19:57 |
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Thread: Boot ESXi installer and install to iSCSI
Post: RE: Boot ESXi installer and install to iSCSI
| Using ESXi 5.1 U1
Hardware is some generic old MSI AMD board, AMD 7750, 4GB DDR2 RAM, 512MB USB Boot disk.
I did start out with 0x80 and 0x81, but was just trying to change things which could have be... |
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nry |
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2013-05-21, 14:44 |
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Thread: Boot ESXi installer and install to iSCSI
Post: Boot ESXi installer and install to iSCSI
| Pulling my hair out with this one a little. As previously I got this up and running in under an hour with little to no hassle.
Setup PXE on pfSense to chainload iPXE with the following command on a s... |
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nry |
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29,279 |
2013-05-20, 23:42 |
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Thread: Boot from Fibre Channel
Post: RE: Boot from Fibre Channel
| (2013-04-15 13:25)mcb30 Wrote: iPXE does support Fibre Channel, but currently the only supported transport is Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). iPXE has a complete Fibre Channel stack, but h... |
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nry |
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2013-04-16, 09:59 |
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Thread: Boot from Fibre Channel
Post: Boot from Fibre Channel
| Hi
Came across gPXE then found iPXE which sounds like it does exacley what I want it to do.
Which is have a central SAN/storage device for my media PCs (which double up as ESXi hosts). Then using a ... |
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nry |
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18,005 |
2013-04-12, 20:14 |
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