alces-bootserver

Tools for building and running pxeboot server

Configuration

# git clone https://github.com/alces-software/alces-bootserver.git
# cd  alces-bootserver

You will then need to modify the etc/vars file which provides the configuration for a DHCP server for the network of the build interface.

# vim etc/vars
# ./bin/build.sh

To automatically provide CentOS 7 Installation media, run the script in your git clone directory ~/alces-bootserver/bin/configure_centos7_install.sh which will provide all the required files to perform basic installations of CentOS 7 using the upstream provided ISO media.

Alternatively place any required files requiring to be served by TFTP at /opt/alces-bootserver/tftpboot and any files in /opt/alces-bootserver/resources to be made available via HTTP.

Starting

Once you have the files required for PXE Booting in place:

[root@localhost alces-bootserver]# cd /opt/alces-bootserver
[root@localhost alces-bootserver]# ./bin/start.sh
Successfully started alces-bootserver.

Your PXE boot server should be running, logs are located at /opt/alces-bootserver/var/.

Stopping alces-bootserver

Execute script:

[root@localhost alces-bootserver]# cd /opt/alces-bootserver
[root@localhost alces-bootserver]# ./bin/stop.sh