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steve6375 · 2012-01-31, 17:43

Sorry, newbie Q's...

Apart from the test demo image at http://boot.ipxe.org/demo/boot.php are there any other images that can be booted via http. Is there a list anywhere?

Second Q - What would one need to do to host such a set of bootable images? i.e. Is it just a case of adding a few files to a folder or does the web server need to be configured at all?
Thanks
Steve

***robinsmidsrod*** · 2012-02-03, 15:44

If you actually open that URL above in your browser you can see that it is a tiny text file, a so-called iPXE script. It is just a normal text file. You can create it in any editor and host it on any web server.

I just install Apache on my own Linux server and put the files in /var/www/htdocs/. I then try to load the URL in my browser. If I can see the text file there, you're good to go for making a script load by iPXE.

For more information on scripting and how to load the first script, you'd really want to look at the chainloading article on the main website, and the very extensive scripting documentation.

steve6375 · (This post was last modified: 2012-02-03 16:48 by steve6375.)

(2012-02-03 15:44)robinsmidsrod Wrote: If you actually open that URL above in your browser you can see that it is a tiny text file, a so-called iPXE script. It is just a normal text file. You can create it in any editor and host it on any web server.

I just install Apache on my own Linux server and put the files in /var/www/htdocs/. I then try to load the URL in my browser. If I can see the text file there, you're good to go for making a script load by iPXE.

For more information on scripting and how to load the first script, you'd really want to look at the chainloading article on the main website, and the very extensive scripting documentation.

Thanks for the reply. I have since found that http://www.netboot.me is such a site. Their ISO can be booted under QEMU and works fine! Unfortunately, I can not boot it in the 'raw' from USB on my i3 Acer notebook as their linux hangs (but it works fine on an EeePC netbook!). Do you know of any other sites which provide ready-made images (or even ones which you can upload your own images)?
cheers, Steve

***robinsmidsrod*** · 2012-02-05, 16:31

(2012-02-03 16:45)steve6375 Wrote: Do you know of any other sites which provide ready-made images (or even ones which you can upload your own images)?
cheers, Steve

No, I don't keep track of anything like that. I just run my own server and use that to store boot scripts and other things.