Ubuntu – Thin Client Lubuntu over PXE Server with DHCP and TFTP

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I have 10 old computers (like thin clients) without HDD. So i decided to use Lubuntu as Operating System. In my work we have a PXE server with DHCP and TFTP, they built a debian distro before and for the menu.cfg, they used boot=live but in lubuntu they use nfs and boot must be boot=casper, so here my problem begins, i tried to change the vmlinuz and initrd, but then i am getting a kernel panic error.
Is there a script that i can merge squashfs and initrd.gz, so the thin clients will begin directly over initrd.gz.
OR is there any other solution?

Best Answer

One way is to use memdisk from syslinux-common package to boot using ISO image directly though TFTP.

  1. Copy memdisk & ISO images to TFTP root

  2. Add menu entries to PXE configuration file, Example:

    LABEL slitaz
    MENU LABEL ^Slitaz.iso
    TEXT HELP
Testing boot from iso.
    ENDTEXT 
    KERNEL memdisk
    APPEND initrd=slitaz-cooking.iso

LABEL mini_ubutnu
    MENU LABEL Mini-Ubuntu
    KERNEL memdisk
    APPEND initrd=ubuntu_mini.iso
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