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To make things easier I have forked a GitHub repo that was created to get PXE Boot of a CentOS Install started but modified it for Clonezilla Live.Įdit your PXElinux config file /tftpboot/nbi_img/pxelinux.cfg/default, and append the following label Clonezilla-liveĪPPEND initrd =initrd.img boot =live config noswap nolocales edd =on nomodeset ocs_live_run = "ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param = "" keyboard-layouts = "" ocs_live_batch = "no" locales = "" vga =788 nosplash noprompt fetch =tftp:// $serverIP/filesystem.squashfs You can make it by something like: “unzip -j clonezilla-live-*.zip live/vmlinuz live/initrd.img live/filesystem.squashfs -d /tftpboot/nbi_img/” (Replace clonezilla-live-*.zip with the file name you just downloaded).
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I’m sure you could use other boot loaders, but I have never tried any, so I’m going to stick to what I know!Īccording to the Centos wiki, the minimum required files to perform a PXE network boot using Clonezilla Live are:ĭownload Clonezilla live zip file (You have to use Clonezilla live 1.2.0-25 or later), and unzip the required files (vmlinuz, initrd.img, and filesystem.squashfs in dir live) to /tftpboot/nbi_img/. In order to get PXE boot working, we now need to upload the PXELINUX.0 and a few associated files from the SYSLINUX project to the TFTP share. Step 4 – Upload the PXELINUX scripts and PXE menu to your tftp folder. It is possible to tell the server to use a different server for TFTP using DHCP option 66 – but this is not necessary in our case because the Synology NAS is performing both functions. If the server making the DHCP request is performing a PXE boot, it will attempt to retrieve and load this file via TFTP from the DHCP server IP address. This will set up a DHCP service which sets DHCP 67 (boot filename) in it’s DHCP offers to be PXELINUX.0. This will override the DHCP service settings. Fill out the remaining fields using the same settings you used for DHCP in step 2. You also need to specify a folder somewhere on your NAS that can be used as the TFTP root folder. Step 3 – Set up the TFTP and PXE Services. Once you are happy this is working, you can move on to configure the TFTP and PXE servers. You will need to configure the relevant primary and secondary DNS, start and end IP addresses, netmask and gateway settings.
You can download the DHCP server package in Package Center. If you are running this on your main LAN, you will need to disable the DHCP server on your router so they don’t conflict. I would recommend you set up the DHCP server on your Synology first and test it works. Step 2 – Set up the DHCP Service on your NAS
#INSTALL CLONZILLA ON USB FOR MAC UPDATE#
Follow the download links for your region, download the appropriate firmware that for your model of device, then upload it in the DSM admin panel – control panel – DSM update screen.
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Upgrade your Synology device to DSM 4.2 beta if you haven’t already.
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How to set up your Synology NAS as a PXE boot server
With a little work, you can also configure custom kickstart files to be served to each server, to save having to enter all the installation options manually. It’s incredibly useful if you wish to automate the deployment of many servers without having to attend each one with an installation CD / DVD / USB stick. Most modern servers come with PXE support as standard. It’s a technology that can be used to boot a computer into an operating system from it’s network card without needing anything to be installed on the computer’s local storage devices in advance. PXE (pronounced pixie) stands for Preboot eXecution Environment. In this post I will show you how to set up a PXE boot server that will let you perform a network installation of Centos 6.3 using your Synology NAS. I’ve yet to test them in a production environment, but given my experience in the lab, I am sure they would be a competitive solution. They also offer more powerful Enterprise versions of their NAS devices, which run the same operating system but with much faster hardware. This makes their NAS devices even more ideal in a home virtualisation lab as they are both cheap to buy and to run (the DS212 unit that I own consumes less than 20W in use), but also easy to configure and they offer a wide range of storage and network services such as CIFS / AFP / NFS / iSCSI, LDAP, PXE, TFTP, VPN, DNS.
I was excited to see that Synology have recently integrated a PXE solution in their latest version of Diskstation Manager – DSM 4.2 beta.