GNU/Linux |
CentOS 4.8 |
i386 |
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pxeos(8) |
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pxeos − PXEBoot Operating System description Configuration Utility
pxeos [OPTION] [Operating System Name]
This is a command line tool for configuring Operating System descriptions to be used for PXE boot files.
-a, add
add a new Operating System description |
-m, modify
modify an Operating System description |
-d, delete
delete an Operating System description |
-l, list
list all Operating System descriptions |
-h, help
show usage |
-i, description <description>
set short description associated with the Operating System. |
-p, protocol <NFS | HTTP | FTP>
specify protocol used to access the Operating System; |
-D, diskless <1|0>
specify whether the Operating System is diskless on not |
-s, server <server>
specify the server machine containing the Operating System |
-L, location <disklocation>
specify the directory on the server machine containing the Operating System |
-A, anonymous <1|0>
specify whether to use anonymous ftp to access the Operating System |
-u, user <username>
specify ftp user to access the Operating System |
-P, password <password>
specify ftp password to access the Operating System |
-K, kickstart <kickstartfile>
specify the location of the kickstart file, this should be specified as a kernel parameter. http://frodo.lab.boston.redhat.com/kickstart/ks.cfg |
/usr/sbin/pxeos
/tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/pxeos.xml
/usr/share/system-config-netboot/*
To run this program simply type:
pxeos -l
List all the currently defined Operating Systems
pxeos -a -D 1
--server frodo --location /diskless/i386/RHEL-AS -p NFS
RHEL-AS-Diskless
Add a diskless Operating System nfs mounted from
frodo:/diskless/i386/RHEL-AS
Operating System Name
specify the name to identify this Operating System |
This utility configures PXELinux Operating Systems to be used by pxeboot and system-config-netboot
system-config-netboot(8)
pxeboot(8)
Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
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