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This is a how-to for a diskless installation of boot of Ghost 4 Linux.
Name: syslinux
Homepage: http://syslinux.zytor.com/ Function: The SYSLINUX Project covers lightweight bootloaders for floppy media, network booting and bootable "El Torito" CD-ROMs.
Name: Ghost 4 Linux
Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4l/ Function: Ghost for Linux is a hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tool similar to "Norton Ghost"(c) and (tm) by Symantec
Name: Fedora
HomePage: http://fedora.redhat.com/ Function:
Fedora Core is a free operating system that offers the best combination
of stable and cutting-edge software that exists in the free software
world
1. Firstly we need to get dhcp working.
nano /etc/dhcpd.conf dhcpd.conf:
ddns-update-style interim;
ignore client-updates;
allow bootp;
allow booting;
subnet 192.168.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
range 192.168.0.10 192.168.0.200;
option routers 192.168.0.1;
option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
option domain-name "home.net";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.0.254;
next-server 192.168.0.254;
default-lease-time 21600;
max-lease-time 43200;
option root-path "/tftpboot/";
filename "pxelinux.0";
}
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2. Next we need to setup PXE boot, so download syslinux
wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/syslinux-3.36.tar.gz
3. Now install it
tar -xvzf syslinux-3.11.tar.gz -C /usr/local/src 
4. Create the tftpd directory at the root directory, '/'.
mkdir /tftpboot
5. Now, we need to copy 2 files from here to our newly created tftpboot directory
cp /usr/local/src/syslinux-3.11/pxelinux.0 /tftpboot
cp /usr/local/src/syslinux-3.11/memdisk/memdisk /tftpboot
6. Make sure you have the TFTPD-server installed and then edit the following file
nano /etc/xinetd.d/tftp tftp:
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service tftp {
socket_type = dgram
protocol = udp
wait = yes
user = root
server = /usr/sbin/in.tftpd
server_args = -s /tftpboot
disable = yes
per_source = 11
cps = 1002
flags = IPv4
}
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7. Now set TFTP server & the DHCP Server to start on boot
chkconfig tftp on
chkconfig dhcpd on
8. Once that is done restart the following services /etc/init.d/dhcpd restart
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart 
9. Now change directories to the tftpboot folder and make the PXE configuration directory
cd /tftpboot/
mkdir pxelinux.cfg/
10. Change into the pxelinux.cfg directory
cd pxelinux.cfg
11. now make the default configuration file
nano /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
default:
Display images
SAY DEFAULT is now bzImagec
DEFAULT bzImagec
LABEL bzImage6
KERNEL g4l/bzImage6
APPEND initrd=g4l/ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0
LABEL bzImagea
KERNEL g4l/bzImagea
APPEND initrd=g4l/ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0
LABEL bzImageb
KERNEL g4l/bzImageb
APPEND initrd=g4l/ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0
LABEL bzImagec
KERNEL g4l/bzImagec
APPEND initrd=g4l/ramdisk.gz ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0
PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 600
ONTIMEOUT bzImagec
F1 images
F2 preimage
F3 startup
F4 disclaim
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12. Now we need to download the ISO of G4L from http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l or directly from
wget http://optusnet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/g4l/g4l-v0.21.iso 
13. Now we need to mount the ISO
mount -o loop -t iso9660 /tmp/g4l-v0.21.iso /media/cdrom/
14. Once the ISO is mounted we need to make the g4l directory and cop the files
mkdir /tftpboot/g4l
cp -rf /media/cdrom/* /tftpboot/g4l
15. Now just set your client to boot from network
BookMarking:
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