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You might want to look into this.

[quote=“Bjorn Jentoft, post: 2149, member: 587”]It’s a known fact that tftp is not the fastest protocol out there. Bigger files transfer much better on http. If you exchange [B]pxelinux.0[/B] with [B]gpxelinux.0[/B], http is supported. This will decrease loading time of ISO files substantially.

Your pxelinux.cfg/default would then contain something like this

LABEL winstall32
MENU LABEL Install Windows (all 32-bit)
LINUX memdisk
INITRD [url]http://myfogserver/iso/LiteTouchPE_x86.iso[/url]
APPEND iso raw

or

LABEL winpe
MENU LABEL WinPE
LINUX memdisk
INITRD [url]http://myfogserver/iso/mywinpe.iso[/url]
APPEND iso raw

Good luck, Bjorn[/quote]

the gpxelinux.0 can be grabbed from SYSlinux, [url]https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/[/url]

[CODE]append root=/dev/nfs initrd=/ubuntu/12.10/casper/initrd.lz boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=192.168.0.3:/ubuntu/12.10[/CODE]

Your append line should look like this. Note the “root=/dev/nfs”
you will need to test if you still need your “initrd=” line because it is in the append line.

/tftpboot is on the server and contains the pxe boot file, the menu and menu processor files. I don’t know if this is what you’re looking for, as you don’t have to put anything in there to make the clients boot to PXE.

The clients have to have a network card which support PXE booting, and it usually has to be enabled in the BIOS, or a key hit during boot, such as F12.

Right now have successful tftp get pxelinux.0 on my remote machine but when I try to boot it the dhcp the request times out, I did not set the IP for the dhcp server during the fog set up how can I change it?