SystemRescueCd 1.0.0 via Netboot

Sven Bachmann

Hi,

first of all, your client PC should have a netboot capable network card and about 512MB RAM, because the SystemRescueCd image will be loaded completely to RAM.

Server:

  • setup a TFTP server which delivers the following files: pxelinux.0, rescuecd, initram.igz

  • add a pxelinux.cfg file with the following content

    DEFAULT SysResCD TIMEOUT 10 PROMPT 1

    LABEL SysResCD KERNEL rescuecd APPEND initrd=initram.igz rootpass=1234 dodhcp setkmap=us video=ofonly vga=0 cdrom scandelay=5 netboot=http://192.168.1.1/sysrcd.dat

  • setup a webserver which delivers the following file: sysrcd.dat

Client:

  • setup netboot (look in your BIOS if this is supported)
  • boot it

You’re done… as you can see, the client will automatically do dhcp and the root password for the ssh access will be set to 1234 :-)

Bye Sven