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Any way to PXE install PCLOS 2010.1?
« on: October 08, 2010, 02:54:19 PM »
Can anyone provide a way to PXE install PCLOS 2010.1?  I can to this with most other distros but this one's got no documentation - or if there is, i haven't found it.
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Re: Any way to PXE install PCLOS 2010.1?
« Reply #1 on: October 08, 2010, 06:40:26 PM »
hello and welcome to the forum

is this the only way you cna install pclinux?

no cdrom(internal or external) or usb to create a liveusb?
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Re: Any way to PXE install PCLOS 2010.1?
« Reply #2 on: October 09, 2010, 10:34:05 PM »
No, I can & have installed from CD.  I choose to install from the network.  I manage a compatibility lab for a major hard drive manufacturer and find it easier for our Technicians to install from the network vs. toting around CDs.  I've got just about all the other major distros working but this one.  If it's too big of a deal, I'll just scrap this distro and focus on the others.  Any suggestions on how to get this distro working via network would be appreciated.
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Re: Any way to PXE install PCLOS 2010.1?
« Reply #3 on: October 09, 2010, 11:16:50 PM »

i have been here long enough and i do not remember anybody asking this question before or anybody writing a tutorial on how to do this. I think all linux distributions use the same packages and hence the same procedures that work on other distributions should work in pclinuxos too.

Hopefully, somebody will come along and give a detail instructions on how to do it and if that person doesnt show up, we would like to ask you to investigate this and maybe perhaps write a short how to for the rest of us so that we can help somebody else who will come after you with the same question. We all learn from each other and your knowledge of how this task can be accomplished will be greatly appreciated. What other distro's have you used that have this functionality? how did they do it?, it should more or less be the same procedure.
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Re: Any way to PXE install PCLOS 2010.1?
« Reply #4 on: October 09, 2010, 11:37:46 PM »
if you don't want your technicians to carry cds create liveusb(on a external hard disk or a flash drive) and problem solved, faster procedure if you are not going to install more than 2 or 3 per day

as muungwana says i don't remember anyone asking this but probably should be possible but as you say complicated

the ideal installation of pclinux is a live cd/usb and Texstar never mentioned a special repo to do it online or offline this way
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