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