Sanboot Slitaz Live CD

[hsuanyeh]

Recently, iPXE has been improved to allow sanbooting live CD without the need of MEMDISK. I have tested sanboot slitaz ISO CD and it works really well. You may follow below steps to set up your own environment.

1. Download Slitaz CD ISO here.

2. Make Slitaz CD ISO as an iSCSI target.

You may edit "/etc/iet/ietd.conf" and add the following two lines:

Code:

Target iqn.2011-05.com.domain:Slitaz.iso
Lun 0 Path=/path/to/slitaz-3.0.iso,Type=fileio,IOMode=ro

Then, restart your iSCSI target.

Code:

# service iscsi-target restart

This target should be ready for boot.

3. Sanboot Slitaz:

Start your machine (physical or virtual) with "ipxe.iso" or "ipxe.dsk", and press Ctrl-B to bring up the command line. Then, type in the following commands.

Code:

iPXE> dhcp
iPXE> sanboot iscsi:<IP of iSCSI target server>::::iqn.2011-05.com.domain:Slitaz.iso

Follow the instruction on the screen, you should be able to boot to Slitaz's desktop environment.

4. Notes:
So far, only Slitaz has been successfully booted. It appears that other distros have problem finding the live CD media. If you have any success with other live CD distros, please kindly share your experience. Enjoy!

Hsuanyeh