[Dnsmasq-discuss] Fwd: dnsmasq : how to configure for pxe over http

[D.L.C. Burggraaff]

Hmm, the html scrubbing messed up things ...

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 6:10 PM, D.L.C. Burggraaff <burdi02 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Simon,
>
> Thank you for your quick response. It certainly helped me, but nevertheless
> it took me several days to find a working solution. All google results,
> either directly or indirectly, seemed to indicate that the http redirection
> should be for the pxelinux.cfg/default file -- as my initial script shows,
> or via the 209/210 dhcp options. First when it dawned upon me that the http
> redirection should be in the  pxelinux.cfg/default file I got things
> working.
>
> So my dnsmasq invocation now reads:
>
> dnsmasq --enable-tftp --tftp-root=$PXEDIR --dhcp-range=$SUBNET.50,proxy \
>    --pxe-service=x86PC,"Booting from the network: this may take a
> while...",lpxelinux
>
> and my pxelinux.cfg/default file now reads:
>
> DEFAULT pmagic
> # Boot the entire ISO over PXE.
> LABEL pmagic
> LINUX http://123.123.123.123/pxe/pmagic/memdisk
> INITRD http://123.123.123.123/pxe/pmagic/pmagic_2014_06_10.iso
> APPEND iso
>
> As an aside, the "lpxelinux.0" is the recent syslinux successor to
> gpexlinux.
>
> Kind regards, Dick