pxe boot antlets

So I've been trying to find faster ways of building antlets using the centos9 stream iso's.  Prior to me doing the edge linux upgrades since I was way behind apparently I was able to PXE boot off my network without any issues.  I tried all kinds of things but no luck.  My question to the forum has anyone been able to PXE boot the antlets off the network without issues?

Thanks,

Hi @davidlandry2019

Thanks for posting about PXE Boot.
Can you let us know what kind of PXE Boot server you are using?

Yes, this should be supported in antlets.  However, I have not personally tried this.
I'm curious to see if anyone else has tried and what their experience was.

Thanks,
antsle Support

Sure no problem.  I have an antlet running centos9 stream as a PXE server.  The DHCP is handled by a unifi UDM pro appliance configured with the network boot options.

Ok I was able to get it working.  It looks like the template "Blank-Virtio-KVM" works no problem.  With the "Blank-Virtio-KVM" template it will let the PXE client work and use the virtual network adaptors that are assigned.

Now that I figured out which template to use I can now do the following using pxe and kickstart.

• map the software repository
• pick software packages
• partition and set the drive location
• set timezone
• set root pw and permissions
• post-install scripts
  • Perform system updates
  • install ldap packages
  • configure ldap
  • mount nas volume
  • configure home directory mappings
  • load banner security warning
  • load custom profiles for cli usage

All of this is 100% unattended once the antlet is configured, virtual network adaptor set and powered on.

Hi @davidlandry2019

Thanks so much for sharing this!
I will share with our team as well.

Thanks,
antsle Support