Installing TNSR via iPXE

atoonk

Hi,
I'm new to TNSR and excited to give it a spin. I was trying to get it to run on a baremetal server rented at packet.com (now metal.equinix.com) https://metal.equinix.com/product/servers/

I have the ISO and I'm trying to PXE boot it. Unfortunately without much luck. Has anyone ever tried to do this, and any luck with it?
Not quite sure what the best way to do this is.

for what its' worth this is what I tried :

#!ipxe
dhcp net0
set base-url http://XXXX
kernel https://boot.netboot.xyz/memdisk iso raw
initrd ${base-url}/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
imgstat
boot

(I also tried: initrd ${base-url}/isolinux/initrd.img)

I realize this may not be something you can help with, but figured it's worth a try, in case someone has experience with this.

I'm guessing the only other option is to launch a server with Centos and then install the needed packages?

Thanks Andree

kiokoman

@atoonk

kiokoman@nanto:/var/www/html/tnsr$ ls -a
.  ..  BaseOS  .discinfo  EFI  images  isolinux  ks.cfg  media.repo  TRANS.TBL  .treeinfo

ks.cfg : <- there is probably unused / not needed stuff here, it's your work to figure out, i just copy/paste from other sources and adjusted the url

kiokoman@nanto:/var/www/html/tnsr$ cat ks.cfg
firewall --disabled
install
url --url="http://tftp.kiokoman.home/tnsr"
rootpw --iscrypted /hNTxhbZeFodHAO.D9uC.
auth  useshadow  passalgo=sha512
text
keyboard us
lang en_US
timezone America/Detroit
bootloader
clearpart --all --initlabel
part swap --asprimary --fstype="swap" --size=1024
part /boot --fstype xfs --size=200
part pv.01 --size=1 --grow
volgroup rootvg01 pv.01
logvol / --fstype xfs --name=lv01 --vgname=rootvg01 --size=1 --grow
%packages
 @core
 %end
 %post
 %end

copy from isolinux directory ->

kiokoman@nanto:/tftp/tnsr$ ls
initrd.img  vmlinuz

kiokoman@nanto:/tftp$ cat pxelinux.cfg/default
default vesamenu.c32
prompt 0
timeout 300
ONTIMEOUT local

menu title ########## PXE Boot Menu ##########

other stuff
other stuff
other stuff ....

label 6
        menu label ^6) TNSR
        kernel tnsr/vmlinuz
        append initrd=tnsr/initrd.img inst.repo=http://nanto.kiokoman.home/tnsr/ ks=http://nanto.kiokoman.home/tnsr/ks.cfg